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CREATIVE MIND 



by 



ERNEST SHURTLEFF HOLMES 

Author of "CREATIVE MIND AND SUCCESS" 



A Series of Talks on Mental 
and Spiritual Law Delivered 
at theMetaphysicallnstitute, 
Los Angeles, California, 
U.S.A., in the YearNineteen 
Hundred Eighteen. Second 
Edition Revised and Enlarged 




NEW YORK 

ROBERT M. McBRIDE Sf CO, 

1919 



Copyright, 1919 
BY 

ERNEST SHURTLEFF HOLMES 



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Printed in the United States of America 






DEC 17 1919 



PUBLISHED 1919 



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k INTRODUCTION. 

'PHE hand of eternal progress is brushing the cobwebs 
from the corridors of time and is again revealing 
to the human race the mysteries of being. As there is 
"nothing new under the sun," the searchlight of Truth 
is bringing to light only what has been known to the few 
in all generations. The time has now come when the few 
must become the many. The whole world, from the least to 
the greatest, must know the Truth, so that man may under- 
stand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn 
to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring 
happiness to his own soul. Ignorance must vanish and 
understanding must be ushered in. Man is no longer to 
be governed by anything outside himself. Creeds, doctrines, 
churches, institutions, organizations, governments are all 
being changed to give place to the realization of the indi- 
vidual. There is a power in and through all that is working 
this great transformation. All that will not measure up 
to the standard must fall by its own weight; all that is 
in line with the Truth must still prosper. The time is at 
hand; we are in the greatest age of all history; we are 
in the age of the unifying of all people and all things into 
the "Ever Present One." "The temple not made with 
hands" is now being silently builded by the emancipated 
souls of this planet. 



Introduction. 

This little book is an attempt to explain what each soul 
must discover for himself, that he stands in the midst of 
an eternal creative power which presses itself around his 
own thought, and casts back to him glorified all that he 
thinks. If it awakens within the consciousness of one single 
individual the realization that the mind of the Universe 
(which is the only mind that there is) is his own mind; 
that the creative power of this mind is his also; that the 
manifestation of this mind is his own individuality; that 
the love and power and peace of this mind is within himself, 
it will not be written in vain. May it then do much in 
simplifying and bringing to light some of the deeper 
mysteries and meanings of life. 

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes, 

October 1, 1918. 



PART ONE 



ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS 

IN THE BEGINNING 1 

Spirit is the first cause in the creative series. 
Manifestation, the action of Spirit upon itself. 

A PRINCIPLE THAT CAN BE PROVEN 4 

"It is done unto you even as you believe." 

THE WORD GOING FORTH 5 

The word establishes itself as law. 

WHY AND WHAT IS MAN? 7 

Man is the outcome of the desire of the Spirit to 
make something which expresses the same life that 
It feels. 

THE LAW OF OUR LIVES 8 

We are centers of creative thought activity in the 

Universal Mind. 

Unlimited life is latent in man. 

MAN'S PART 10 

Through harmony with Universal Mind man's word 

becomes the law of his life. 

Man not a creator but his thought is creative. 

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vi Contents 

BONDAGE AND FREEDOM 13 

Ignorance is the only bondage. 
Freedom is the law of belief. 

THE WORD 14 

As God's word is in the Universe so man's word is 
in his own life. 

THE MAN WHO HAS ARRIVED 17 

The one who can control his thinking is he to whom 
time and place makes no difference. 

THE POWER WE HAVE WITHIN US 17 

We have as much creative power as we allow to flow 
through us. 

INDIVIDUAL IDEAS 18 

Have power to manifest as long as held. 

THE REASON FOR THE UNIVERSE 19 

MIND IN ACTION 19 

All Law is mind in action, both Cosmic and in the 

individual. 

Life externalizes at the level of our thought. 

ACTION AND REACTION 20 

Law of cause and effect always operative. 

ARRIVING AT A HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS 21 

Have faith and willingness to believe in the law of 
life to do for us. 



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OUTER SUGGESTIONS 22 

Are under our own control. We must learn to govern 

life by inner realization. 

Working in union with the power of good. 

THE USE OF THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS 24 
The inner realization that - good is always with us 
results in health, happiness and prosperity. 

THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS 26 

The realization of completion brings us into the en- 
larged consciousness. 

THE PERFECT UNIVERSE 30 

We must come to realize that we are living in a 
perfect universe peopled with perfect ideas ; it - appears 
to us as we harmonize with it. 

ABOUT STRUGGLE KARMA 32 

The great law of life is thinking and becoming. 
Karma is the result of false thinking. The only 
escape is to know what the truth is and think it. 



PART TWO — PRACTICE 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

INTRODUCTORY 35 

THE SAME POWER USED IN TWO WAYS. ... 37 

HEALING THE SICK 39 

DENIALS 40 

THE USE OF AFFIRMATIONS 42 

THE HIGHEST ATTITUDE OF MIND 43 

NON-RESISTANCE 43 

BE ALIVE 44 

BE HAPPY 45 

LIVE IN THE PRESENT 46 

SEE THE GOOD IN ALL THINGS 47 

BE EXPECTANT 49 

EXPANDING THOUGHT 49 

POWER OF TREATMENT 50 

REPEATING A TREATMENT 50 

IMPERSONAL HEALING 51 

PROSPERITY 54 

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL MIND? 54 

THE CHURCH OF GOD 57 

THE PATH OF PROSPERITY 58 

THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT 60 

THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS 63 

PRACTICE FOR PROSPERITY 65 

CONCLUSION 67 

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 71 

DEFINITIONS 77 

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CREATIVE MIND. 

PART I. 

IN THE BEGINNING. 

66 TN the beginning, God !" Clear and expressive are these 
words. In the beginning, God only. No manifest 
universe! No system of planets! Nothing of form or 
life, of brute or man ! God was the Spirit of All that was 
to be, but He had not yet moved upon the waters. Then 
this All-Being moved, or began to create. Where did Spirit 
move, upon what did It move to create; where did It get 
a pattern; what means or power did It employ; through 
what agencies did It work? In short, what is the world, 
ourselves included, made out of, and how did we and all 
else come into being? These questions correctly answered 
would solve the problem of being and set men free. Let 
us consider. 

The Spirit was all; there was nothing else but Itself. 
All-inclusive, Everywhere, Infinite. This All-Spirit could 
not have had the impulse to move unless It were self- 
conscious, therefore the Spirit is the Power that knows 
Itself ; It is accordingly All-Knowing as well as All-Present. 
Being one, undivided, whatever It knows, It knows all over 
instantly. We find then that the Spirit operates through 
self knowing. It moves, and that inner movement must be 
one of Infinite Power, moving upon Itself — since It is 
all — and with a definite purpose. The Spirit, then, moves 



2 Creative Mind. 

> 
upon Itself, and makes out of Itself all that is made. In 
other words, what we see comes from what we do not see, 
through some inner intelligence at work, which knows there 
is no power but Itself. "The things that are seen are not 
made of the things that do appear." The only possible 
operation of intelligence is thought, or "The Word." So all 
things were made by the Word, and "Without the Word 
was not anything made that hath been made." How simple 
the process of creation when we understand it. The Spirit 
speaks — and since there is nothing but the Spirit and it is 
All-Power, it has only to speak and it is done ; "The Word 
was with God and the Word was God." 

From the Word, then, comes forth all that appears. Each 
life, human or divine, each manifestation is a different 
kind of word coming into expression. The great fact to 
dwell upon is that Spirit needs nothing to help It ; It is self- 
conscious and has all power and all ability to do whatever 
It wishes to accomplish. It operates simply by speaking. 

It is hard to get a clear concept of this great Ceaseless 
Cause, this something from which all things come ; at times 
we get into a maze of confusion when we attempt to realize 
what the Spirit means. It is then that we should think of 
It as the great reason behind everything. Being all-knowl- 
edge It must know Itself, and must know everything It 
creates ; so It knows us and It knows everyone. Since It 
is All-Presence we can contact anywhere and will never 
have to go to some particular spot to find It. As It is 
All-Knowing and operates through the power of the Word, 
It know everything we think. Just how It creates we cannot 
know and need not attempt to understand, for whatever 
this process of creation is, we find it is always an inner 



Creative Mind. 3 

thought process. We should keep this in mind — the Spirit 
makes all things out of Itself. Everything comes into 
being without effort, and when we exert ourselves we are 
not in accord with the Creative Spirit in the way in which 
It works. The impulse of the Spirit to move must be caused 
by a desire to express what It feels Itself to be — Beauty, 
Form, Color, Life, Love and Power. All things else we 
find in the manifest universe are attributes of the Spirit, 
and are caused to spring into being through the Word, 
because the Spirit wants to enjoy Itself. 

We find, then, that the Word, which is the inner activity 
of thought, comes first in the creative series, and all else 
comes from the effect of the Word operating upon a uni- 
versal substance. If the Word precedes all else, then the 
Word is what we are looking for, and when we get it we 
shall have what the world has sought from time immemorial. 
We must, if we wish to prove the power of the Spirit in 
our lives, look not to outside things or effects, but to the 
Word alone. The human eye sees and the human hand 
touches only that which is an effect. Unseen law controls 
everything; but this Law also is an effect; Law did not 
make itself; the Law is not intelligence or causation. 
Before there can be a Law there must be something that 
acts, and the Law is the way it acts ; it is intelligence. "In 
the beginning was the Word." This Word or the activity 
of the Spirit, is the cause of the law, and the law in its 
place is the cause of the thing, and the thing is always 
an effect ; that is, it did not make itself ; it is a result. 
The Word always comes first in the creative series; "The 
Word was with God and the Word was God" and the 
Word still is God. 



4 Creative Mind. 

When we realize that man is like God (and he could not 
be otherwise, being made out of God), we will realize that 
his word also has power. If there is but One Mind then 
it follows that our word, our thought is the activity of 
that One Mind in our consciousness; the power that holds 
the planets in their place is the same power that flows 
through man. We must place the Word where it belongs, 
whether it is the word of God in the Universe or the 
word of man in the individual; it is always first, before 
all else, in the beginning. The real sequence is this : Cause, 
Spirit, Intelligence, God; the Word, the activity of Intel- 
ligence; the effect, or the visible thing, whether it is a 
planet or a peanut. All are made out of the same thing. 

What we need to do is to learn how to use the word 
so that all will come to see that they are creative centers 
within themselves. 

A PRINCIPLE THAT CAN BE PROVEN. 

TTNOWING that Mind is, we have a principle that is 
absolute ; it is exact ; it is going to correspond to our 
thinking about it. The first great necessity is to believe 
this ; without belief we can do nothing. This is the reason 
Jesus said "It is done unto you even as you have believed." 
Always it is done unto people as they believe, and there 
is Something that does it which never fails. 

We must believe that our word is formed upon and 
around by this creative Mind; for instance, we wish to 
create activity in our business; we believe that our word 
is law about that thing, and there is something that takes 
our thought and executes it for us. If we have accepted 



Creative Mind. 5 

the fact that all is mind and that the thought is the thing, 
we shall see at once that our word is the power behind the 
thing, and that it depends upon the word or thought that 
we are sending out. (See Creative Mind and Success by 
the author.) 

So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought 
makes an impression upon it. People who think many 
kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused mani- 
festation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand 
kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants; it 
is the same in mind. 

THE WORD GOING FORTH. 

QINCE this is true, everything depends upon our mental 
concepts. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" ; 
the Bible reiterates this statement telling us many times 
of the creative power of thought; Jesus taught nothing 
else; He said "the words which I speak unto you, they are 
Spirit and they are life/' 

The Centurion coming to Jesus recognized the power of 
the word spoken by the latter. He said, "I also am one 
in authority"; but his authority was on the physical plane, 
and he saw that Jesus had authority on a Spiritual plane, 
for he said, "Speak the word only." 

The Bible also tells us that the word is not afar off but 
in our own mouth. It is neither here nor there ; it is within 
every living soul. We must take the responsibility for our 
own lives. All must awake to the facts that they have 
absolute control over their lives, and that nothing can 
happen by chance. Then they will have a broader concept 



6 Creative Mind. 

of God, a greater tolerance for their neighbor, and a greater 
realization of their own divine nature. What a relief from 
strenuous labor; no more struggle or strife. "Be still and 
know that I am God, and beside me there is none other." 
The Spirit being all there is, we cannot conceive of anything 
that can hinder its working. When the Spirit has spoken, 
the Word becomes Law, for before the Law is the Word ; 
It precedes all else. First is Absolute Intelligence, All- 
Power, All-Presence, All-Causation; then the movement 
upon itself through the power of the Word ; then the Word 
becoming Law; the Law producing the thing and holding 
it in place. 

So long as the Word exists the thing will exist, for since 
the Word is All-Power there is nothing beside It. "I Am 
that I Am, and beside me there is none other." This "I Am" 
is Spirit, God, All. There is no physical explanation for 
anything in the universe ; all causation is Spirit and all 
effect spiritual. We are not living in a physical world but 
in a spiritual world peopled with spiritual ideas. We are 
now living in Spirit. 

God, or Spirit, governs the universe through great mental 
laws that work out the divine will and purpose, always 
operating from Intelligence. This Intelligence is so vast, 
and the power so great that our human minds cannot even 
grasp it ; all that we can hope to do is to learn something 
of the way in which it works, and by harmonizing ourselves 
with it, to so align ourselves with Spirit that our lives may 
be controlled by the great harmony that obtains in all the 
higher laws of nature, but has been very imperfectly mani- 
fested in man. This brings us to the second point of 
consideration. 



Creative Mind. 



WHY, AND WHAT IS MAN? 

TT/HE find in the physical universe that automatic laws 
govern everything; for instance, the tree cannot 
say "I will not," because of the law that holds it in place; 
it grows without any volition of its own. So it is with all 
nature ; but when we come to man we find a different mani- 
festation of the Spirit, a being who can say "I choose." In 
all creation, man alone is an individual ; man alone is free ; 
and yet man alone wants, is sick, suffers, and is unhappy. 
"Man marks the earth with ruin"; why? because he has 
not found his true nature. The very thing that should free 
him, and eventually will do so, now limits him. God could 
not make an individual without making him able to think, 
and he cannot think without bringing upon himself the 
results of his thought, good or bad. This does not mean 
using two powers, but using the One from two standpoints. 
Nothing in itself is either good or bad; all things exist in 
mind as a potentiality; mind is eternally acting upon 
thought, continually producing its own images from mind, 
and casting them out into manifestation. Man must be 
the outcome of the desire of the Spirit to make something 
which expresses the same life that It feels. Man is made 
to be a companion of the Infinite; but to arrive at this 
exalted plane of being, he must have his freedom, and be 
let alone to discover his own nature; to return love to his 
Creator only when he chooses to do so. At the doorway, 
then, of man's mind this wonderful God has to wait. 
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock" ; the opening must 
be on the part of the individual. 



8 Creative Mind. 

Man lives in a mind that presses in upon him from all 
sides with infinite possibilities, with infinite creative power. 
The divine urge of infinite love crowds itself upon him, 
and awaits his recognition. Being the image of this Power, 
his thought also must be the Word or cause in the life. 
At the center of his being is all the power that he will 
need on the path of his unf oldment ; all the mind that man 
has is as much of this Infinite Mind as he allows to flow 
through him. We have often thought of God as far off, 
and of man as a being separate from the All Good; now 
we are coming to see that God and man are one, and that 
that One is simply awaiting man's recognition, that he 
may spring into being and become to man all that he could 
wish or want. "As the father has inherent life in himself, 
so hath he given to the Son to have life within himself." 
It could not be otherwise ; we are all in Mind and Mind 
is always creating for us as we think ; and as we are think- 
ing creatures, always thinking, our happiness depends upon 
our thought. Let us consider the law of our life. 



THE LAW OF OUR LIVES. 

CPIRIT creates through law,. v The law is always mind 
in action. Mind cannot act unless intelligence sets 
it in motion. In the great universal mind man is a center 
of intelligence, and every time he thinks he sets mind into 
action. What is the activity of this mind in relation to 
man's thought ? It has to be one of mental correspondence ; 
that is, mind has to reflect whatever thought it casts into 
it. Wonderful as Universal Mind is, it has no choice but 
to create whatever thought is given it ; if it could contradict 



Creative Mind. 9 

that thought, it would not be a unit, since this would be 
recognizing something outside itself. This is a point in 
Truth which should not be overlooked. The ONE MIND 
knows only its own ability to make whatever is given It; 
It sees no other power and never analyzes or dissects; It 
simply KNOWS, and the reason why people do not under- 
stand this is that they have not realized what mind is. 
The ordinary individual thinks of mind only from the 
limitation of his own environment. The concept he has 
of mind is the concept of his own thinking, which is very 
limited. 

We are surrounded by an All Seeing, All Knowing Mind, 
which is One and runs through all. The belief in the dual 
mind has destroyed practically all philosophies and religions 
of the ages, and will continue to do so until the world comes 
to see that there is but One. Whatever name is given it 
there is but One. It is this One that creates for us, what- 
ever we believe. Our thought operative through this One 
produces all our affairs. We are all centers in this Mind, 
centers of creative thought activity. There is nothing which 
appears in the manifest Universe other than an objectified 
thought, whether it be a bump on your head, a growth 
on your foot or a planet. It could not be there were it 
not made out of Mind, for mind is all there is to make 
anything out of. Whatever is made is made out of it. 
Nothing exists or can exist without a source from which 
it springs. 

We are not dealing with a negative as well as a positive 
Power — not two powers but one ; a power that sees neither 
good nor evil, as we see it. It knows only that it is all, 
and since it is all, it creates whatever is given it. From our 



10 Creative Mind. 

limited standpoint we often think of good, and evil; not 
realizing that, as yet, we do not know the one from the 
other. What we call good to-day, we may call evil to- 
morrow, and what we think to be evil to-day, we may 
to-morrow proclaim as the greatest good we have known. 
Not so with the Great Universal Power of Mind; It sees 
only Itself, and Its infinite ability to create. 

To the thinking person this will mean much ; he will see 
that he is no longer living in a limited universe, a world 
of powers, but that he is immersed in an Infinite Creative 
Medium which, because of Its Nature, has to create for 
him whatever he believes. Jesus understood this, and in a 
few simple words, laid down the law of life: "It is done 
unto all people as they believe." This is a great thing to 
keep in mind. It is done unto us; we do not have to do it, 
for it is done unto us of a power that knows itself to be 
all there is. Could we even believe that some material 
mountain would be moved, the power is there to do it. 
Without this belief there is no re,al impulse for the Creative 
Mind, and we do not get an affirmative answer. We must 
realize more clearly that this Great Power has to operate 
through us. 

MAN'S PART. 

QREATIVE MIND cannot force itself upon us because 
we have the power of self-choice. It recognizes us 
when we recognize it. When we think that we are limited 
or have not been heard, it must take that thought and bring 
it into manifestation for us. 

When we look about us and see nature so beautiful, so 



Creative Mind. 11 

lavish and so limitless, when we realize that something, 
some power, is behind all, and sees to it that plenty obtains 
everywhere, so that in all things manifest there is more 
than could be used; and when on the other hand we see 
man so limited, sick, sad and needy, we are disposed to 
ask this question : "Is God good after all ? Does He really 
care for the people of His creation ? Why am I sick ? Why 
am I poor?" Little do we realize that the answer is in 
our own mouths, in the creative power of our own thought. 
The average person when told the Truth will still seek 
some other way. 

God has already done for us — in a mechanical way — all 
that He can do ; and having been given the ability, we will 
have to do for ourselves the rest. Yet the Great Power 
is always near, ready at any time to help, but we must use 
it according to its own nature in harmony with its laws. 
Man should learn that he himself is the center of this 
Divine activity. Realizing this, he must seek more and 
more to utilize his own Divine nature, and by so doing 
he will come more fully under the protection of the great 
laws that govern all life, manifest and unmanifest. What- 
ever man is, he must find that because he is made out of 
God, he must be of the same nature. This Infinite One 
cannot know anything outside of itself ; anything that would 
be a contradiction of its Divine nature ; man's ignorance 
of his real nature binds him with his own freedom, until he 
comes to see things as they really are, and not as they 
appear to be. 

In the Infinity of mind, which is the principle of all meta- 
physics and of all life, there is nothing but mind, and that 
which mind does. That is all there is in the Universe. 



12 Creative Mind. 

That is all there ever was or ever will be. This mind is 
acted upon by our thought, and so our thought becomes the 
law of our lives. It is just as much a law in our individual 
lives as God's thought is in the larger life of the Universe. 

For the sake of clearness, think of yourself as in this 
Mind, think of yourself as a center in it. That is your 
principle. You think, and Mind produces the thing. One 
of the big points to remember is that we do not have to 
create ; all that we have to do is to think. Mind, the only 
Mind that there is, creates. 

Few people seem to understand the nature of the law 
and so think that they have got to do something, even if 
it is only holding a thought; thinking or knowing is what 
does the thing. It will make it much easier for us when 
we realize that we do not have to make anything, just to 
know ; that there is something back of the knowing which 
does the work for us. 

That person gets the best results who realizes that he 
can use this divine principle; he who can get the clearest 
concept of his idea, and who can rely on mind to do for 
him, keeping everything out of his thought that would 
contradict the supremacy of Spirit or Mind. 

By simply holding a thought we could not make anything 
but by knowing in mind what cannot we do? 



Creative Mind. 13 

BONDAGE AND FREEDOM. 

TVEVER get away from the fact that you are surrounded 
by such a power ; it is the principle of demonstration. 
It knows every thought. As we send forth our thought 
into it, it does unto us. The person who is ignorant of 
this law must by that ignorance be bound by his thought, 
by his human beliefs. One who understands will begin to 
break these ties that bind him ; one by one he will destroy 
every negative thought until at last he is able to think what 
he wants to think; and so he frees himself by the use of 
the same power that at one time bound him. We must 
destroy all thought that we would not see manifest and 
hold to that which we would see, until we receive the 
affirmative answer. 

Never struggle, Mind makes things out of Itself, there 
is no effort made. Don't think that there is so much to 
be overcome. Have only a calm sense of perfect peace 
as you realize that God is all, and that you are using the 
perfect law and that nothing can hinder it from working 
for you. Many people are learning to do this, and no 
one has yet failed to demonstrate who has been steadfast, 
using the law in a consistent and persistent trust. 

All that we have to do is to provide the right mental 
and spiritual attitude of mind and then believe that we 
already have, and the reward will be with us. We shall 
see it. 

The time will come when we will not have to demonstrate 
at all because we will be always living so near to the law 
that it will do all for us without much conscious thought 
on our part. 



14 Creative Mind. 

So when you say, "I am poor, sick or weak ; I am not one 
with the Creative Mind," you are using that creative power 
to keep yourself away from the Infinite; and just as soon 
as you declare that you are one with God, there is a rushing 
out to meet you, as the Father rushed out to meet the 
prodigal son. 'The Spirit seeketh," but as long as your 
mind thinks in the terms of conditions you cannot overcome. 
The difficulty comes from our inability to see our own 
Divine nature, and its relation to the Universe. Until we 
awake to the fact that we are one in nature with God, 
we will not find the way of life; until we realize that our 
own word has the power of life we will not see the way 
of life; and this brings us to the consideration of the use 
of the Word in our lives. 

THE WORD. 

66r THE Word was with God and the Word was God." 
"The Word is nigh thee, even in thy own mouth 
that thou shouldst know it and do it." What does this 
mean? It clearly states that whatever power there is in 
the Word (and it says it is All Power) is also in our own 
mouths. There is no avoiding the fact that the Bible claims 
for man the same power in his own life and his own world 
that it claims for God. In the lives of the majority, men 
do not realize that the Word is in their own mouths. What 
Word? Little do we realize that this Word which they are 
so earnestly seeking is every word they hear, think or speak. 
Do we who are endeavoring to realize the greater truths 
of life always govern our words? If any word has power, 
it follows that all words have power. It is not in the few 



Creative Mind. 15 

moments of spiritual meditation that we demonstrate, but 
we bring out the possibilities of the hidden word when 
we are allowing our thoughts to run in any direction; not 
in the short time spent in silence, but in the long hours 
stretching themselves into days, months, and years, are we 
always using the word. An hour a day spent in silent 
meditation will not save us from the confusion of life ; 
the fifty-one per cent, of a man's thinking is what counts. 
It is easy when we are alone to brave the storms of life ; 
surrounded by our own exalted atmosphere we feel the 
strength of the Infinite ; we rise in Spirit, we think we are 
experiencing the ultimate of truth, that all things are ours. 
These moments in a busy life are well spent, but must 
unavoidably be brief. But what of the rest of the day; 
what of the busy street, of the market place, and of all 
the daily contact with life? Do we then obtain? Do we 
keep on in the same even way? Or do we fall before the 
outer confusion of our surroundings ? We are still creating 
the word and setting it afloat in the great ethers of life. 
Are these words creating for us? Yes! 

How necessary, then, to "keep the independence of the 
solitude"; how seldom we do this! 

"God sent an angel to speak to me — 
A word He was fain I hear; 
And the angel brought the message 
And whispered it in my ear. 

"God knew I needed the word He sent — 
I had lost the zest of fight; 
And the right was all but beaten; 
The wrong it was all but right. 



16 Creative Mind. 

"Simple the word that He sent me — 
But it soothed a spirit raw 
With the pain of too much striving — 

'Twas 'Love fulfills the law.' " 

Few people indeed in the day in which we live are well 
poised. Where do we find the man who can live above 
his surroundings, who in his own thought can dominate 
all conditions, and in the midst of the crowd keep his 
own even way, and his own counsel? When we do meet 
with such a person we will know him; for we shall find 
on his face the image of perfect peace. 

We shall detect in his bearing the ease and independence 
that comes only to the man who has found himself and 
who is centered not in the outer but in the inner world. 

Such a character as this has the power to attract to 
himself all of the best in the world; he is a center toward 
which all else must gravitate. The atmosphere which he 
creates and with which he surrounds himeslf is one of 
absolute calm and peace. The world at once sees in this 
man a master, and gladly sits at his feet. And yet this 
man who has risen above the thought of the world cares 
not that other people should sit at his feet. He knows 
that what he has done all may do, and he well knows that 
all the teaching in the world will not produce another such 
as he. He knows that it is not from the teaching but from 
the being that true greatness springs. So this man does 
not go around teaching or preaching; he simply IS. 



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THE MAN WHO HAS ARRIVED. 

'"THE man who has arrived will realize that he has done 
so in the midst of an outer confusion; he will be 
the one who has gone into the silence for strength, and 
has come out into the world equipped with power from 
on high ; but that light which he has received must be kept 
burning. 

Not alone in the silence but in the busy throng must all 
of us find the way of life. Our every thought creates. 
For the majority of us these thoughts come in every-day 
affairs, some of which are very trivial, but these too will 
be demonstrated. 

. We have missed the whole point, unless we have learned 
so to control our thought that time and place make no 
difference. 

THE POWER WE HAVE WITHIN US. 

"WE have within us a power that is greater than any- 
thing that we shall ever contact in the outer, a 
power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and 
set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, 
in a new light, and in a new life. 

Mind, all Mind is right here. It is God's Mind, God's 
creative Power, God's creative Life. We have as much 
of this Power to use in our daily life as we can believe 
in and embody. 

The store house of nature is filled with infinite good 
awaiting the touch of our awakened thought to spring forth 



18 Creative Mind. 

into manifestation in our life ; but the awakening must be 
on our part and not on the side of life. We stand at the 
gateway of limitless opportunity in the eternal and change- 
less NOW. Now is the day in which to begin the new 
life that is to lift us up to the greater expression of all 
that is wonderful. The word that we speak is the Law 
of our life and nothing hinders but ourselves. We have 
through ignorance of our real nature misused the power 
of our word, and behold what it has brought upon us, 
"the very thing that we feared." But now it shall produce 
a new thing, a new heaven and a new earth. 

INDIVIDUAL IDEAS. 

"WfE find that in the Universe every separate idea has 
a word, a mental concept behind it, and as long as 
that word remains the thing is held in place in the visible 
world; when the concept is withdrawn the idea in the 
visible melts away, disappears ; it ceases to vibrate to the 
word, which is the law behind it, for when the word is 
withdrawn the condensation of the ether that forms the 
word melts again into the formless. There was a time 
when the world was without form, and from the word alone 
all things were made that are made. When our word says 
that there is no longer life in our bodies, the life principle 
withdraws and our bodies return to the substance from 
which they came. Here is the great mystery of life, that 
we are able to use this creative word for whatever purpose 
we may desire, and that word becomes the Law unto the 
thing for which it was spoken. 

And so in our lives we might say that without our word 



Creative Mind. 19 

was not anything made that was made. For we are given 
the power to sit in the midst of our lives and direct all their 
activities. There is no struggle and no strife necessary. 
All that we have to do is to know. We must awake and 
with the glorified consciousness of an emancipated soul 
use our God-given power. 

THE REASON FOR THE UNIVERSE. 

r THIS Universe is the reason, first of an Infinite Intelli- 
gence which speaks or thinks, and as this thought 
becomes active within itself, it creates from itself, at the 
power of its own word, the visible Universe. We are living 
in a Universal activity of mental law, we are surrounded by 
a Mind which receives every impression of our thought 
and returns to us just what we think. Every man, then, 
is living in a world made for him from the activity of 
his thought. 

It is a self-evident proposition that Mind must create out 
of Itself ; and this Self being Limitless, it follows that 
its creative power is without limit. 

MIND IN ACTION. 

EVERYTHING that we see is the result of mind in 
action. We all have a body and we have what is 
called a physical environment; we could have neither if 
it were not for mind. The law implanted within us is, 
that we need nothing except ourselves and this All- Wise 
Creative Mind to make anything; and that just so far as 
we depend upon any condition, past, present or future, or 



20 Creative Mind. 

upon any individual, we are creating chaos, because we are 
dealing with conditions and not with causes. Every living 
soul is a law unto himself, but of this great truth few 
people are conscious. It seems difficult for the race, which 
feels itself to be so limited, to comprehend the fact that 
there is a power that makes things directly out of itself, 
by simply becoming the thing that it makes, and that it 
does this by self knowing. But we will not demonstrate 
until we see at least some of this, the greatest truth about 
life. 

We should realize that we are dealing with the principle 
that is scientifically correct. It will never fail us at any 
time but is eternally present. We can approach the Infinite 
Mind with a depth of thought and understanding, knowing 
that it will respond, knowing that we are dealing with 
reality. 

Jesus, who saw this very clearly, laid down the whole 
law of life in a few simple words: ''It is done unto you 
as you believe." We do not have to do it, it is done unto 
us, it is done by a power that is all. Could we believe that 
a material mountain would be moved, it would be done 
unto us. But unless we do believe there is no impulse for 
the creative power and we do not receive. Life externalizes 
at the level of our thought. 

ACTION AND REACTION. 

'J'HERE is something that casts back at us every thought 
that we think. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, 
saith the Lord," is a statement of eternal truth and corre- 
spondences against which nothing can stand, and whatever 



Creative Mind. 21 

man sets in motion in mind will be returned to him, even 
as he has conceived within himself and brought forth into 
manifestation. If we wish to transcend old thoughts we 
must rise above them and think higher things.' We are 
dealing with the law of cause and effect and it is absolute^ 
it receives the slightest as well as the greatest thought and 
at once begins to act upon it. And sometimes even when 
we know this we are surprised at the rapidity with which 
it works. If we have been misusing this law we need not 
fail ; all that we have to do is to turn from the old way and 
begin in the new. We will soon work up out of the old 
law into the new which is being established for us. When 
we desire only the good the evil slips from us and returns 
no more. 

ARRIVNG AT A HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS. 

'JTHE best way to arrive at the highest consciousness is 
to have a great faith in the willingness and the 
ability of Life to do all for us, by working through us. 
We must believe in the inherent goodness and all-powerf ul- 
ness of the Spirit of Truth. And so every path leads us 
back to the one point and we must learn to realize the near 
presence, the great reality. There, through the door of 
our own thought, we enter into the Universal Conscious- 
ness, into a complete realization of life and truth, of love 
and beauty; and as we sit in the silence of our own souls 
and listen, it will be the greatest thing that we will ever 
do. In that completeness we are lost and yet we are found. 
This is what is meant that a man must lose his life in 
order to find it. We are lost to the human and found in 
the divine. We realize that we are One with Cause. 



22 Creative Mind. 

OUTER SUGGESTIONS. 

j^EARLY all people are controlled by outer suggestions, 
and not by inner realizations. Ordinarily man thinks 
only what he sees others do, and hears others say. We 
must all learn so to control the inner life that outside things 
do not make an impression upon our mentalities. As we 
are thinking beings, and cannot help thinking, we cannot 
avoid making things happen to us, and what we need to 
do is so to control our thought processes that our thinking 
will not depart from the realization of that which is perfect. 

Man is governed by a mind which casts back to him 
every thought he thinks; he cannot escape from this and 
need not try; it would be useless. The laws of mind are 
simple and easy to understand. The trouble with us has 
been that we have laid down great obstructions, and then 
have tried to overcome them. Stop trying, stop struggling, 
begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even 
though you do not see them; they are still there. 

Did you ever see the law that causes a plant to grow? 
Of course you did not, and yet you believe in this hidden 
law of growth. Why do you believe ? Simply because every 
>ear, out of the seed time comes a harvest. Shall we not 
have as great faith in the higher laws of being? To those 
souls who have dared to believe has come as definite an 
answer as came to those who believed in receiving a harvest 
trom the planted seed. This law is, and if we would see 
results we must use it ; that is, we must provide the mental 
receptivity that will prepare us to accept the gift when 
the Spirit makes it. This receiving is a mental process, a 
process in which we lose all sense of limitation. 



Creative Mind. 23 

If you wish to demonstrate prosperity, begin to think 
and talk about it, and to see it everywhere. Do nothing 
that contradicts this thought either mentally or physically. 
The world is full of good ; take it and forget all else. Rise 
above depression and be glad that you are saved from 
adversity; the human mind needs to be cleansed from the 
morbid thoughts that bind through its false beliefs. 

No living soul can demonstrate two things at the same 
time, if one contradicts the other. There is no way except 
to let go of all that you do not wish to come into your 
experience, and, in mind, take all that you do wish. 

SEE, HEAR, TALK ABOUT, AND READ ONLY 
WHAT YOU WISH, AND NEVER AGAIN LET A 
NEGATIVE THOUGHT COME INTO YOUR MIND. 

God knows good only, and when we are in line with 
good He knows us ; when we are out of harmony with 
good, we say, "God has forgotten us." On the one hand 
we have an Infinite Intelligence which has brought us up 
to where we are to-day; and having done all that it can 
for us now lets us alone to discover our own nature. On 
the other hand we have the Infinite Law — which is an 
activity of God — and we can use it for what we will, only 
with this provision, that, in so far as we use it for the 
good of all, are we protected. 

The law obtains through all nature that as a man sows, 
so must he reap. Now the Father has brought us to where 
we can understand life, and we must go as we choose. 
If we are in harmony with the great forward movement 
of the Spirit, there is nothing that can hinder our advance- 
ment ; if we oppose it, somewhere along our pathway it 
will crush us. As with individuals so with nations ; in so 



24 Creative Mind. 

far as they work with a right spirit they prosper ; when they 
begin to fail in the use of this law they begin to fall. He 
who understands will take the position of one who wishes 
to work in union with the Power of Good; and to such 
an one will come all the power that he can conceive of 
and believe in ; his word becomes in expression as the very 
word of God, and he must realize it to be all powerful. 
So the one who is truly united with Good will wish to 
express only the truth for all ; and in doing so he is work- 
ing along the lines of the unfoldment of the Spirit, and 
though he may seem to fail, from the ordinary standpoint, 
yet his success is assured; for he is at one with the only 
ultimate power before which, in time, all else must fall. 

THE USE OF THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS. 

TN practice the emancipated soul must always realize that 
he is in union with the Father; what the Father does, 
he can do in his own life; what God is, he can become. 
His word must be spoken with absolute authority ; he must 
know; there should be no uncertainty. The word is the 
only power ; everything must come from it, and nothing can 
stand against it; it is the great weapon which he is to use 
against all evil and for all good. It is his shield against 
all adversity and his sure defense against all seeming 
limitation. 

The secret place of the Most High is in his own soul, 
where God dwells in eternal peace and infinite calm. Here 
he walks the waters of life undisturbed by the waves and 
the storm. Divine companionship is his for all eternity. 
Peace which transcends all human confusion comes, and 



Creative Mind. 25 

he realizes that indeed he is honored of the Father. His 
word is flung out and will work and none can hinder it; 
the sense of sureness is complete. Heaven and earth may 
pass away, but the word goes on and on accomplishing 
that thing for which it was sent; and all power is given 
to it on earth and in heaven. If he speaks to the sick and 
they receive, it will heal them. If he says the word of 
prosperity it will manifest, and nothing can hinder it; the 
world will abound with good, and his cup run over with life. 
What more can we ask! What greater realization of 
life than to know that God is with us! From this great 
realization comes peace, a peace which the world little 
understands, and a calm which is as deep as the infinite 
sea of love in which he realizes himself to be immersed. 
Peace brings poise, and the union of these two gives birth 
to Power. No person can hope to arrive while he believes 
in two powers ; only as we rise to the realization of the One 
in and through all can we attain. When we speak the word 
there must be no confusion but only that calm reliance 
which knows that "Beside me there is none other." Realize 
that Spirit is All Causation, and that all things are made 
out of it, by the operation of the word through it, and 
that you can speak the word that is one with the Spirit 
and there will be no more confusion. "As the Father has 
inherent life in himself, so has he given to the Son to have 
inherent life within himself. " "Speak the word only and 
it shall be done." "The word is in your own mouth that 
ye should know it and do it." "Stranger on earth, thy 
home is heaven; Pilgrim, thou art the guest of God." 



26 Creative Mind. 

THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS. 

A/TAN is surrounded by a great universal thought power 
which returns to him always just as he thinks. So 
plastic, so receptive is this mind, that it takes the slightest 
impression and moulds it into conditions. There are two 
things in man which his thought affects, his body and his 
environment. At all times he is given absolute control over 
these two things, and from the effect of his thought upon 
them he cannot hope to escape. 

At first, being ignorant of this fact, he binds himself 
by a misuse of the laws of his being; but as he begins 
to see that he himself is responsible for all that comes to 
him on the path of life, he begins to control his thought, 
which in its turn acts on the universal sustance to create 
for him a new world. 

The great soul is learning more and more to dare to fling 
out into mind a divine idea of himself, and to see himself 
perfect and whole. 

If he has a divine thought he will get a divine thing, if 
he has a human thought he will get a human thing ; he will 
receive whatever his innermost thought embodies. And so 
we find in the Bible twice repeated these words: "To the 
pure Thou wilt show Thyself pure and to the froward 
Thou wilt show Thyself froward." It is done unto all as 
they believe. 

We often wonder why it is that we are not making better 
demonstrations. We look about and observe that some are 
getting wonderful results, they are speaking the word and 
people are being healed. We see others struggling along 
with the word, and nothing seems to happen ; and when we 



Creative Mind. 27 

inquire into the reason for all this we find it to be very 
plain indeed. All is mind and we are mental, we are in 
mind and can only get from it what we first think into it. 
We must not only think but we must know. We have to 
provide within ourselves a mental and spiritual likeness for 
the thing desired. The reason why so few succeed, then, 
must be because they have not mentally really believed to 
the exclusion of all that would deny -the thing which they 
believe in. And the reason why others do succeed must 
also be because they have absolutely believed and allowed 
real power to flow through and out into expression. They 
must have a real concept of life. Hold an object in front 
of a mirror and it will image in the mirror the exact size 
of the object. Hold a thought in mind and it will image 
in matter the exact likeness of the thought. Let us take 
this image which we hold before a mirror and change it 
ever so slightly and there will be a corresponding change 
in the reflection. It is just the same in the mental world; 
whatever is imaged is brought forth from mind into mani- 
festation. 

We must not deny that which we affirm. We must reason 
only from that cause which is spiritual and mental and 
weed out all thought that would deny its power in our lives. 
There seems to be something in the race thought that says 
man is poor ; man is limited ; that there is a lack of oppor- 
tunity ; that times are hard ; that prices are high ; that 
nobody wants what I have to offer. No person succeeds 
who speaks these ideas. When we express ourselves in 
this way we are using a destructive power. All such 
thoughts must go, and we must all realize that we are 
an active center in the only power there is. 



28 Creative Mind. 

We must get the perfect vision, the perfect conception; 
we must enlarge our thought until it realizes all good, and 
then we must swing right out and use this Almighty Power 
for definite purposes. We should daily feel a deeper union 
with Life, a greater sense of that indwelling God, the God 
of the everywhere, within us. When we speak into this 
Mind we have sown the seed of thought in the Absolute 
and may rest in peace. We do not have to make haste, 
because it is done unto all as they believe. "In that day 
that they shall call upon me I will answer." 

People will often ask, "What is the best method for 
demonstration ?" There is but one answer to that question ; 
the Word is the only possible method of demonstrating 
anything ; the word really felt and embodied in our thought. 
Then the word becomes flesh and dwells among us and 
we behold and experience it. We will ask for no other 
way when we understand this. 

The person who does not understand these laws will be 
likely to say that this is presumptuous ; that it is even sacre- 
ligious ; but this comes only from a lack of understanding 
of the fact that all is governed by law, and that all law is 
impersonal and universal. We have just as much right to 
use spiritual law as to use so-called physical laws. Strictly 
speaking there is no such a thing as a physical law, as all 
things are spiritual and all law is a law of the activity of 
the Spirit. The greatest use of these laws will always come 
to that soul who is the most deeply spiritual, as such an one 
comes the nearest to using law as God uses it. So to the 
really great soul there must come a very close relationship 
with the Invisible God ; this relationship cannot be expressed 
in words but only in inner feeling which transcends the 



Creative Mind. 29 

power of words to express. God must oecome the great 
reality, not simply as the principle of life, but more as 
the great Mind which knows, and which at all times under- 
stands and responds. To say that God does not understand 
our desires would be to rob the divine mind of all conscious- 
ness and place God lower in the scale of being than we 
ourselves are. On the other hand we must be careful not 
to believe that God thinks evil and understands that which 
is not perfect, as then we would have an imperfect being 
for the First Cause. 

We should more and more learn to think of things in 
the absolute, that is, to think of things as not limited by 
conditions. Realize at all times that the Spirit makes things 
out of Itself, and needs no beginning except its own self- 
recognition. Then we must cognize our relation to this 
great power as one of absolute correspondence; what we 
think into it, it takes up and does for us as we think It 
should not be an effort so to think; we should do so with 
ease, without strain. The law must return to us; we have 
no responsibility except to provide the proper channel. It 
can return only in the exact way that we think. If we 
think struggle is the reality, we shall gain our demonstra- 
tion, but struggle will have to be the result. There is a 
law of reflection between Mind and the one who thinks; 
and it is not only what a man thinks but also how he thinks 
that "shall be done unto him." 

If you believe absolutely that you can do a certain thing, 
the way will always be opened for you to do it; if also 
you believe that time will have to elapse, then you are 
making that a law, and time will have to elapse. If on 
the other hand you believe that mind knows just how and 



30 Creative Mind. 

never makes mistakes, but lets it be done unto you, then 
it will be done. Confusion brings more confusion; peace 
begets more peace; we cannot imagine the Great Spirit 
hurrying or worrying, fretting or trying to make anything 
happen. The only reason we worry and fret is because 
we have thought there was some other power which could 
bring confusion. Such is not the case. There is but one, 
and we are always using that one but using it according 
to our belief. This is our divine birthright, nothing hinders 
but ourselves. Remember that since all is mind, you cannot 
demonstrate beyond your ability to comprehend mentally, 
that is, beyond your ability to know about a certain thing. 
For instance, suppose you wish to heal some one who is 
sick; your ability to do this will depend entirely upon your 
ability to see perfection mentally, coupled also with the 
realization that your word destroys everything unlike itself. 
If you try to see perfection for a few minutes only, it will 
never heal. Your thought goes on at all times, and in the 
moments when you least realize it, conditions are being 
moulded for you. It is not enough to declare consciously 
for the truth. The truth must be lived or no good results 
will be forthcoming. 

THE PERFECT UNIVERSE. 

T^HE one who desires to heal must stop seeing, reading 
about, discussing, or listening to conversation about 
sickness. There is no other way under the sun except 
as we let go of that which we do not desire, and take 
that which we wish to have. There is too much of this 
deceiving ourselves into thinking that we can do two ways 



Creative Mind. 31 

at once. We may deceive ourselves and possibly other 
people, but the law remains the same, a law of mental 
correspondences, and nothing else. We cannot go beyond 
our ability to realize the truth ; water rises only to its own 
level. In our patients as well as in ourselves and our 
environment we will reflect what we are, not at our best in 
the few moments of silence, but in the long run of ordinary 
life and thought. 

To acquire the larger consciousness is no easy task. All 
that we have believed in which contradicts the perfect whole 
must be dropped from our thought, and we must come to 
realize that we are now living in a perfect universe, peopled 
with perfect spiritual beings, each of which (coupled with 
the Great Divinity) is complete within himself. We must 
see that we are one in the great one, and then we will not 
separate or divide, but unite and add to, until in time we 
will find that we are living in an entirely different world 
from that in which we had once thought we were living. 
Of course this will meet with much opposition from those 
unenlightened souls whom we must contact in the world. 
But what of that? Remember, the great man is the one 
who can keep in the crowd the calm, even thought, the 
deep, divine reliance on principle. And more, this is the 
only way "to help or to save the world. In time all people 
will come to the same understanding. You are lifting up 
the standard of life, and those who are ready will follow. 
You have no responsibility to save the world except by 
exemplifying the truth. The world must save itself. 

All are alike; there is no difference between one person 
and another. Come to see all as a divine idea; stop all 
negative thought; think only about what you want, and 



32 Creative Mind. 

never about what you do not want, as that would cause 
a false creation. Too much cannot be said about the fact 
that all are dealing with only one power, making and 
unmaking for man through the creative power of his own 
thought. If there is something in your life that you do 
not want there, stop fighting it — forget it ! 

ABOUT STRUGGLE — KARMA. 

''THERE is too much struggle coming into the meta- 
physical thought. Often we hear some seeker after 
truth say, "I have a big fight ahead." O foolish and 
untaught, how can you hope to enter in! The kingdom 
comes not from without, but from within, always. Stop 
all struggle and wait upon the sure principle that creates 
whatever it wills because there is nothing to oppose it. 
As long as we think that opposition exists we are blocking 
the way for the clearer vision. Those that take up the 
sword must perish by it ; not because God is a jealous God, 
but because that is the way the law must work. 

Cause and effect must obtain everywhere. Do not even 
fuss about your Karma; too often we hear people say, 
"This is my Karma." This may be true enough, but how 
many people know what they mean when they use the word 
Karma? Do you realize that your Karma is nothing but 
your false thinking, and that the only way to escape it is 
to think the truth, and that brings in the higher law ? When 
the greater comes in the lesser leaves because there is no 
longer anything to give life to it. The past is gone when 
we learn to forgive and to forget. 

This erases from mind all that is held against us, and 



Creative Mind. 33 

even our sins "Are remembered no more against us for- 
ever." Fate is in our own hands, and when we will rise 
to that pure atmosphere where we see things in their com- 
pleteness, and know that an All- Wise Power is behind it 
all, we will see that the Infinite Mind could wish for us 
only that which expresses itself in limitless terms. The 
whole trouble has been that we reason as men and not as 
Gods. "I say ye are Gods and every one of you Sons of 
the Most High." 

The great law of life is thinking and becoming; and 
when we think from the lofty heights of the Spirit we will 
become great, and not until then. Do not try to convince 
any one of the truth; that will bring confusion. Truth is, 
just as much as God is; and the whole world is coming 
gradually into the realization of it. Keep the truth within 
your own soul, lift your own self above the confusion of 
life, and then people will believe. So all our thought is 
to be created in the realization of the One becoming the 
many, without struggle, without fear; stripped of all that 
denies the truth. 

How limited we are, how little our thought! How the 
human race rises in the morning, plods off to the day's 
work, plods home at night, sore and tired, eats and sleeps, 
works and dies. As has been said of man, "Man works 
hard to get money to buy food to get strength to work 
hard -to get money to buy food to get strength to work 
hard to get money, etc." This was never intended ; it is the 
curse imposed on the man who believed in two powers, 
one of good and one of evil. To us there has come a 
greater vision, and to those who believe and act as though 
it were true it is proving itself. 



34 Creative Mind. 

We must turn from all human thought and experience. 
We are not down trodden, depraved and miserable sinners, 
born in sin and conceived in iniquity and shame, some to 
go to heaven and some to hell and all to the eternal glory 
of God. This is a lie, it always was and always will be. 
But as long as we believe in a lie it seems to be present 
with us. 

Man is born of the Spirit of God Almighty, is pure, holy, 
perfect, complete and undefiled; is at one with his eternal 
principle of being. Many people are finding this out and 
as a monument to its truth millions are daily proving it 
for themselves. 

Somewhere down the path of human experience we will 
all awake to the realization that we ourselves are heaven 
or hell. 

We live in Spirit awaiting the touch of thought that 
believes. All people look, a few see. 



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PART II. 

PRACTICE. 

INTRODUCTORY. 

TTHE one who wishes to practise metaphysics must first, 
last, and all the time realize that he himself is a 
center of the divine activity ; he must know that whatever 
God is in the Universal, he is in the world in which he 
lives. He must know that all things are made out of Spirit, 
which is First Cause ; nothing comes before Spirit. Operat- 
ing upon itself out of itself, it makes what it will out of 
its own perfect desire. He must think of the Spirit as the 
Father of his own life, eternally bound to him, eternally 
binding him to it. 

He must know that the Spirit not only can manifest 
through him, but that it wishes to do so ; "The Father seeks 
such to worship Him." The practitioner who understands 
the truth knows that as long as God exists, he will exist ; 
that he could no more become non-existent than God could. 
Walking, talking, moving in God, he must not only see the 
Divine Being as the great unknown Cause, but he must 
go a step further and see God as the great self-knowing, 
understanding power of Infinite Intelligence, thinking 
through his own thought and willing into his own life all 
power and all good. More than this, God must become 



36 Creative Mind. 

within his own soul the greater self, the inner life, the inner 
light that is to light his path with sure step to the attain- 
ment of the greater ideals. God is to become the great 
friend of his life, understanding him, and helping him at 
all times to understand all things. 

No more books, no more teachers, no more preachers, 
creeds or candlesticks will he ever need. The old methods 
must vanish into their native nothingness, as the great 
realization that God is all in his life dawns upon his awak- 
ened thought. 

"Naught is the squire, when the king's at hand; 
Withdraw the stars, when dawns the sun's brave light." 

He must know that not height, nor depth, nor any other 
thing, can come between the soul and its perfect Creator. 
Too long have we listened to people ; now our own soul 
shall speak in a language that is unmistakable; now shall 
we ourselves become masters of all life and interpreters 
of all mysteries. Now my Father and I are one. 

As the word of God goes forth and sets in motion the 
all law, so must we realize because we are one with the 
word that our own thought has the power of expression. 
The one who wishes to heal must come to see all evil as 
impersonal, fastening it to no one, but realizing that it is 
simply false thought ; the healer knows that the word which 
he is to speak will destroy this false impression; and by 
erasing it, it will vanish. 

There should be absolutely no sense of responsibility 
beyond speaking the word in positive faith, knowing. All 
struggle belongs to the Old Order ; in the New peace takes 



'Creative Mind. 37 

the place of confusion, faith answers the cry of doubt and 
fear, and the Word is supreme. 

We must know that our word is law, and cannot be set 
aside by the false thought of the world. Every time that 
we state a truth, we must know that that truth destroys 
all that is unlike itself and frees the thought of the one 
whom we wish to help and to heal. 

This word must become the new Law which frees. 
People are sick because they think sickness and will be 
healed only when they turn from this kind of thought and 
begin to think in terms of health. 

THE SAME POWER USED IN TWO WAYS. 

HTHERE is only One power, but we use it in two ways, 
either to destroy or to save. The blessing and the 
curse are one and the same thing ; the power of mind used 
either affirmatively or negatively; the word used in fear 
and doubt or in faith and assurance. 

You do not have to understand material philosophy or 
be learned in the books of the human race. All these things 
may be good in their place, but to one who understands the 
greater laws of life they are as simple babblings^ 

"An infant crying in the night, 
An infant crying for the light. 
And with no language but a cry." 

We no longer cry, we Know. We no longer ask if there 
be a God, or if we dare to speak to Him lest we die; we 
do not analyze, dissect, affirm, or deny, We know. 

We trust our own word because first we "Know in whom 



38 Creative Mind. 

we have believed." The sooner the one who is striving to 
attain will realize that truth must become revealed through 
his own soul, and not that of another, the sooner he will 
attain. We must then become immune from the race 
suggestion of an hypnotic power that sets itself up as an 
authority. There is no other authority than your own soul, 
as "There is no law but that your soul has set." Leave 
authorities to smaller minds, and to those who need a leader 
because of this their own self-confessed weakness, and be 
Free. Dare to "Stand amidst the eternal way" and proclaim 
your own Atonement with all the power that there is, was, 
or ever will be. 

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized, thinking 
whatever it is told to think. We get our concepts from 
our physical environment, we say, "See sin, sickness and 
death, misery, unhappiness and calamity." And this concept 
we are giving to the creative, impersonal Mind, and so we 
are making a law for ourselves that will produce what 
we believe in. Do we really know what law means ? It means 
that which will exact the utmost farthing from our thought. 

Like produces like, attracts like, creates like. If we could 
see our thought and take a picture of it and of our condi- 
tions we would see no difference between the two, for they 
are really but the inside and the outside of the same thing. 

We cannot make affirmations for fifteen minutes a day 
and spend the rest of our time denying the thing which 
we have affirmed, and affirming the thing which we have 
denied, and obtain the results which we seek. We send 
out the word and it sets the power in motion; then we 
think the opposite thing which neutralizes the first word, 
and zero is the result. 



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We cannot demonstrate one iota beyond our mental 
ability to conceive and steadfastly to embody. Infinite as 
Creative Power is, receptive and quick as it is, it can only 
become to us what we first think into it. God can do for 
us only what He can do through us. 

Dare to say, "Behold I am he. Great men have come 
and gone, and behold a greater now stands here where I 
stand, and I am that one." The world will laugh and 
perhaps scorn. The Christian world will hold up its 
hands in holy horror, lest you blaspheme ; the unchristian 
world will smile knowingly. Neither the one nor the other 
will understand, but the understanding of either counts for 
nothing. You are now free, and your freedom will yet 
save the world from itself. The great soul finds within 
himself the Divine companionship which he needs. He finds 
within himself the "Peace which passeth all understanding" 
and the power to do all things. All Power! He speaks, 
his word is Law and it is done unto him of all the power 
there is. His word knows itself to be the law of life unto 
all for whom it is spoken and who receive it. 

HEALING THE SICK. 

TTTE shall be called upon to heal all manner of disease, 
to comfort the sorrowing and to bring peace to the 
distressed. First we must heal ourselves. When we are 
healing others we are also healing ourselves. A healer's 
work takes place within himself. This idea of "sending 
out thought" and "holding thought" is all a mistake. Things 
come into being not only by "taking thought" but by know- 
ing that the Word is in-finite. This word is in your own 



40 Creative Mind. 

mouth, and there alone can it be spoken. Here your 
responsibility begins and here it ends, in your own mouth. 
You must feel no responsibility for the recovery of your 
patient, for it brings confusion and disturbance to be always 
wondering if it is working. It must work, if you have the 
sure faith, and your patient is receptive. You are dealing 
with the same power that said, "Let there be light" and 
there was light. 

If your patient is suffering from a belief that he is dying 
of some dread disease, you must know that when you speak 
the word it will destroy this false belief and set him free. 
There must be no doubt about the power in the word which 
you speak. It should be said in perfect calm, in peace, and 
with absolute faith that it will work. This word then 
establishes the law of life unto the patient, it casts out all 
fear, it destroys all false sense of a material life and realizes 
that all is an expression of a perfect God; and so leaves 
nothing that can sin, be sick, suffer or die. When you are 
as sure of this as that you breathe, when you truly know 
within yourself, your patient will be healed, provided he 
also believes. If he does not believe it is not your fault, 
and you will have done for him all that can be done. 

DENIALS. 

COME people teach the use of denials. This must be 
settled by each individual for himself. Here and at 
all times we must settle every question from within and not 
from without. No living soul can say how another should 
or should not work. Beware of the danger of a self- 
appointed authority ; this danger is as apt to come into New 



Creative Mind. 41 

Thought as it was in the Old. No one is your authority on 
anything. Let us look into the philosophy of denials. We 
find that many people teach and practise them, and we do 
not wish in any way to criticize them. Their reasoning is 
this: "All disease is an image of thought held in mind 
until it appears in the body." It is true that without the 
ability to think man could not be sick. If he thinks a sick 
thought it will make him sick ; when he changes his thought 
and thinks health, he is healed. It is taught that since 
sickness is negative thought, it must be counteracted by a 
positive thought, and that the best way is to deny t^e sick 
and affirm the positive thought; for instance, "There is no 
matter, and nothing can be the matter. This man has no 
material stomach, he is spiritual and not material ; his lungs 
are not made of matter, they are spiritual ideas; I deny 
that man can be sick or suffer or die." All this may be 
accurate ; man is a spiritual idea, and so must be perfect in 
his real nature; but there is a question if this is the better 
way. When we look into the creative way of the spirit 
we find it impossible for denial to enter, as the Spirit 
recognizes no opposite to its own nature. 

It knows that "I Am and beside me there is no other." 
The Spirit does not deny anything, it simply affirms itself 
to be that which it desires to be. Seeing and recognizing 
no opposite to itself, it finds no need of denial, indeed, this 
thought need not enter the mind ; if we are working with 
the Spirit we need not deny but state the affirmative 
attitude of mind, realizing that we are dealing with the 
only power that exists. There is a subtle danger in using 
denials; we may deny to such an extent as to erect a 
barrier or build a mountain to overcome. Once realize 



42 Creative Mind. 

that God makes things out of Himself simply by speaking, 
and you will never again use denials in treating. All that 
needs changing is the false thought, and by affirming that 
your word destroys everything but itself you will embody 
all that a denial could. In those systems that teach denials 
we find that the more enlightened ones are gradually using 
the affirmative method, and as this is the growth of experi- 
ence there can be no doubt that it is the better method. 
Of one thing we may be sure, the Spirit never denies. It 
simply knows that I am. 

THE USE OF AFFIRMATIONS. 

''THE affirmation is the great weapon of the healer; it 
is in alignment with the way of the original creative 
spirit and is the true use of the Word of All Power. 
We need only to say that our word is the law unto the 
case and calmly state what we want to be done, and then 
say and do nothing that contradicts it and wait for the 
fulfillment of that word. There is a power that operates 
on what we say, and it is done unto us, and we need have 
no fear about the results. 

If I am treating Mary Jones I need only say I am 
helping her, and go to work within myself to realize that 
she is now a perfect being, made in the image of God. I 
must know that I am destroying all imperfection ; when I 
know within myself that I am speaking the truth and 
realize that she is perfect, the healing is done as far as 
I am concerned. If she receives she is healed ; I am not 
responsible for her receptivity. Know that there is a 
power that corresponds to your own mental attitude and 



Creative Mind. 43 

you will see that the way you are believing is what makes 
things happen the way they do. Always believe in what 
you are doing; never see the negative side of life, never 
talk about it, or listen to talk of other people, and never 
think about or see imperfection; and you will have no 
trouble in making demonstrations. 

THE HIGHEST ATTITUDE OF MIND. 

'THE highest attitude of mind, from which all else 
springs, is one of perfect calm and absolute trust 
in the Spirit. The one who can with perfect confidence 
look into the future and with perfect ease of mind rest 
in the present, and who never looks backward, but who 
has learned to be still in his own soul and wait upon the 
Spirit, he is the one who will the most completely demon- 
strate the supremacy of spiritual thought over all so-called 
material resistance. "Be still and know that I Am God." 

NON-RESISTANCE. 

""RESIST not evil and it will flee from you." Here 
is a statement of one of the great laws of our being. 
When we resist we make a mental image of the thing we 
are fighting, and that tends to have it created for us. When 
we learn to look only at what we want and never at what 
we do not want, we will no longer resist anything. "Suffer 
it to be so now." You need not try to change the world. 
Let it alone; all people are doing the best they can. No 
one needs to be saved but yourself, and the sooner you 
realize this the sooner you will attain. Get over that "holier 



44 Creative Mind. 

than thou" attitude. It is an illusion that many people 
suffer from, especially in the religious world. The world 
is all right; it is not going to Hell; it is on the way to 
Heaven. It is getting good so fast that in the process many 
things are being overturned and confusion appears to be 
on the surface. A great change is taking place, and on 
the surface the results are as yet a little mixed, but under- 
neath, the power is at work destroying all unlike itself. 
In time all will come to see this. What a load of responsi- 
bility we assume that we were never meant to carry. 

Remember that in the Divine plan no mistakes are made 
and that if God could have done it in a better way he would 
have done it differently. No souls are lost, for all "Live 
and move and have their being in Him" and "God is not 
a God of the dead but of the living, for in His sight all 
are alive." Too long have we believed in the negative simply 
because we have allowed ourselves to become hypnotized 
by a few strong-minded people, and by those who have 
imposed upon the race a mass of false philosophy. 

BE ALIVE. 

'pHERE is no place in the New Order for "dead ones." 
The true metaphysician is alive to all that is useful. 
Filling his place in the events of the human race, he takes 
part in all its labor and in all its fun. Pessimism must be 
relegated to the scrap heap. There is no place among the 
living for the dead. "Let the dead bury their dead." 
"Follow thou me." Do not hesitate to enter into the game 
of life, but do so with a zest and an enthusiasm that over- 
flows with life. Fill yourself with the radiance of a life 



Creative Mind. 45 

running over with power and usefulness. Then shall the 
world see your light. 

People in the New Thought above all others should enter 
into the business world, into educational vocations, into 
politics, into every walk of life, and there prove before 
a waiting world, tired of itself, that a "man's a man," with 
this difference: not a "son of man" but a "Son of God." 

BE HAPPY. 

TTOW can we hope to make the world see the right way 
unless we overflow with joy? The world has now 
too many sad faces. We see them everywhere, that resigned 
look that seems to say, "One rebuff more or less makes no 
difference ; I am already so sad that nothing matters ; I can 
bear it." This was all right when we thought everything 
was all wrong, but now we know that "all's well with the 
world" we must get over this depression which robs us 
of the power of attraction of the good things of life, and 
"enter in." 

The man who is always glad will surround himself with 
people who are happy, and life will be a continual enjoy- 
ment. This robs no one ; it does not make a race of irre- 
sponsible people; it makes a world of joy, a world that is 
good to live in. 

No one wants to associate with the dead. People are 
looking for a more abundant expression of life, not for 
depression and fault-finding. Find fault with no one, and 
more than this find no fault with yourself. Get over the 
thought of condemning people and things. People and 
things are all right; let them alone and enjoy life. Your 



46 Creative Mind. 

very atmosphere will cheer and uplift the people who contact 
you, and a new life will enter into them. Overflow. 

"As it's given me to perceive, 
I most certainly believe 
When a man's glad plumb through, 
God's pleased with him same's you." 

LIVE IN THE PRESENT. 

T IFE is for us to-day. There will be no change for 
to-morrow unless we do the changing to-day. To-day 
we are setting in motion the power of to-morrow. To-day 
is God's day, and we must extract from it what of life we 
are to live. To-morrow in the divine course of events will 
care for itself. The soul that learns to live in the great 
gladness of to-day will never weary of life but will find 
that he is living in an eternal here and now. Now, all 
good is his; now, all life, truth and love are his; now, he 
has entered in, and the good things of life are his to-day. 

"Lord, for to-morrow and its needs I do not pray, 
Make me to do thy will just for to-day." 

Let your soul sing to-day and the song that comes to- 
morrow will be all the sweeter, will ring out over the vistas 
of time with an unmistakable clearness. Here is a soul who 
knows himself and has found life within himself, who has 
met God to-day. No more waiting, no more longing, no 
more weary roads to travel. He has arrived. The goal 
is won and peace has come at last. To-day. 



Creative Mind. 47 

SEE THE GOOD IN ALL THINGS. 

T EARN to see God in all manifestation, in all people, 
through all events. The ordinary person sees only 
the lump of matter. Not so with the awakened soul. He 
sees in all things the Divine Mind at work molding out 
into expression what it feels itself to be of life, of color, 
of form and beauty. There are some illusioned ones who 
claim that what we see is all false, and that the so-called 
material universe is an unreality. What a mistake ! What 
we see is the body of God, full, free, complete, whole. 

"A primrose by the river's brim, 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing more." 

He never saw the idea behind — it was seen only as 
matter, matter, matter; yet what he could have seen was 
God's thought of himself coming out into wonderful beauty, 
and color, and form; The Infinite One manifesting in an 
infinite variety of forms. Wliat do you see when you look 
upon the human form, the crowning glory of God's perfect 
creation? Matter, matter, matter? Flesh, blood and bones? 
Indeed, these may be passing into expression, but what of 
the idea, what of the reality of the body? This body of 
ours is as real as God is real. It would not be if it were 
an illusion. The very touch of the flesh should send a thrill 
through the whole body, bringing up its vibration to a 
higher pitch, to a finer form. The body is not one "mass 
of pollution," it is the temple of the living God and should 
be so thought of. Too long have we condemned it, and 



48 Creative Mind. 

now we must free it by reversing the process. Of all things 
on earth the human body is the most beautiful, the most 
wonderful and the most God-like. 

"If you do not love your brother whom you have seen, 
how can you love God whom you have not seen ?" Human 
magnetism is not hypnotism, it is the divinity of man in 
expression; and when we learn to convert human passion 
into divine love, to transmute the lower into the higher, 
we shall have with us a power of attraction against which 
nothing can stand. 

"He who hath ears to hear, let him hear." 

When we behold a beautiful sunset we should see the 
wonderful thought of God, the radiance of his presence. 
In the strength of the hills we should see the strength of 
the Spirit; and seeing all things as spiritual ideas, we 
should learn to love them, because God has made them 
and given them to us to use. The soul who in ecstasy 
can rush up to a tree and embrace it realizes more of God 
than all the bigoted priests who have ever lived. The one 
who can sniff the ocean breeze with delight feels the 
presence of the divine being more keenly than does the 
one who kneels in despair before an awful God of Justice. 

Learn then how to appreciate Nature and Nature's God. 
Spend much time in the out of doors ; look up at the stars ; 
let them be your companions; tread the pathless ways of 
the trees and the giant forests and see God in everything 
that you look upon, the God of the everywhere. 



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BE EXPECTANT. 

T7XPECT the best to happen. Don't sit around waiting 
for trouble; have absolutely nothing to do with it. 
It is no part of the divine plan. It is an illusion of the 
material sense. One who has learned to trust will not be 
surprised even when he finds things coming from the most 
unexpected sources. All things are man's to use and then 
let go of. What more can we ask? We want nothing that 
we have to keep ; things are to use not to hold. Expect 
that everything is to come your way. Be content and cheer- 
ful if you wish to attract from out the store of the infinite. 
Open up your whole consciousness to the greater possibilities 
of life. Line up with the big things. When you speak the 
word expect it to happen. Know that it must be as you 
say. This will not be fooling yourself, it will simply be 
using the law as it is meant to be used. 

EXPANDING OUR THOUGHT. 

J^LL things come to us through the use of our thought. 
If we have a small concept of life we will always 
be doing small things. First in the creative series is the 
Word, 'but the Word carries us no further than our con- 
sciousness back of it. Unless we are constantly expanding 
our thought we are not growing. Growth is the law of 
life and it is necessary. We cannot stand still. If you want 
to do a new thing, get a new thought and then you will 
have the power of attraction which has the possibility of 
drawing to you the circumstances which will make for the 
fulfillment of your desires. Get over the old idea of limita- 



50 Creative Mind. 

tion. Overcome all precedents and set yourself in the new 
order of things. If you want to build a railroad, you will 
never do it unless you get over the idea that the most you 
can hope for in life is to sell peanuts. Let the people sell 
peanuts for a living who think in the terms of peanuts. 
Get out of the rut. God has created you for a glorious 
future ; dare to fling out into mind the greater assurances 
about yourself. 

THE POWER OF A TREATMENT. 

A TREATMENT has as much power as we put into 
the word which we speak when we are giving it. 
This does not mean screwing up our mind or using our 
will power, or using force from the material standpoint. 
It means simply knowing that what we say will be done 
unto us of a Power which can do anything that is given 
It to do. We must know that our word breaks down every 
material law and sets the patient free to express God. We 
must know that the word would endure even though all 
else should fail. "Heaven and earth will pass away but 
my word will accomplish." In calm confidence and perfect 
faith, speak and wait upon the perfect law. Get that mental 
attitude that never wavers. Be sure and it will be done. 

REPEATING THE TREATMENT. 

f)NE treatment would heal anything if it were not for 

the fact that people are constantly receiving false 

suggestions from the outer life. As it now stands we should 

treat until we get results, always expecting that it will 



Creative Mind. 51 

happen at once. Every treatment should be complete, and 
at the close we should always realize that it is done. 

The word spoken once from the mind that knows is 
immediately taken up by the Mind in which we live, and 
this Mind begins to create around the word, which is the 
seed, the thing thought of. We must speak that word with 
authority. There can be no wondering if it is going to work. 
When we plant a seed in the ground and water and care 
for it, we never doubt but a plant will spring into being. 
So it is with the word. It is acted upon by some power 
which we do not see, but that the power is there there is 
no doubt, since all who go about it get results. As Thomas 
Edison says of electricity, "It Is ; use it ;" so we say of 
mind, "It Is; use it." Always remember that your every 
thought is the way that you are treating, since it is the 
way that you are thinking. 

IMPERSONAL HEALING. 

'THE very presence of one that understands the truth 
will have a great power of healing. The reason for 
this is that we are all in Mind, and we have with us at 
all times our thought, and since all manifestation is the 
result of mind in action, and we are thinking beings and 
are always causing mind to act, the very presence of our 
thought will have some power to act upon whatever we 
are thinking about. We are dealing with a power which 
in itself is limitless. We limit it, and so it cannot become 
to us the bigger thing. Of itself the power is the same 
that made the worlds, and it cannot realize any sense of 
limitation. "They could not enter in because of their 



52 Creative Mind. 

unbelief and because they limited the Holy one of Israel." 
Stop limiting things. Things are as big as we make them, 
no more, no less. There is room at the top. Get on top of 
everything, and dare to dominate the earth. All things 
are given us to use; make use of them. Everything is 
limitless, and we must see the truth that the fault is not 
in the Law but in ourselves when we fail. Not with God 
but with man. Dare, Dare, Dare. 

Think of the bigness of things in the universe, think of 
the number of grains of sand, the profusion of all life, and 
never again limit anything. All is yours to use. Jesus would 
never have become the Christ unless he had had the courage 
to say, "Behold, / Am He! } You will never attain until 
in some degree you are able to say the same thing of 
yourself. 

We must learn to reach out and take what is meant for 
us, the greater life, the all good. People say, "Yes, but 
how do you do it?" Simply know that God makes things 
out of Himself by speaking the word, and that in your 
own life you can do the same. All people can think, and 
all people can speak, at least mentally; this is all that you 
need to begin on. The word is at the center of all creation 
and is first cause, the starting point of all that you see. 
The word is in your own mouth, and all that you have to 
do is to speak it. The trouble is that we are speaking the 
word, and in the next breath we are denying its power 
by seeing something that contradicts it. If the word is the 
way that God creates, it is the right way. If it works for 
God, shall it not work for us? As yet our word is more 
or less imperfect ; but more and more it will become perfect, 
and so the outer condition will be brought up to the inner 



Creative Mind. 53 

word. All words have as much power as we put into them 
when we speak. 'The word is already in our own mouths." 
That word is all that you will ever need to bring happiness, 
health and success to you. 

Do you wish to live in a perfect world peopled with 
friends who love you, surrounded by all that is beautiful 
and pleasing? Do you wish to have the good things of 
life ? There is but one way and that way is- as sure as that 
the sun shines. Forget all else and think only upon what 
you want. Control all thought that denies the real, and as 
the mist disappears before the sun so shall all adversity 
melt before the shining radiance of your own exalted 
thought. 

The prodigal son remained a prodigal only so long as 
he chose to do so. When the thought came to him to 
return he was greeted by the Father with outstretched 
hands. So shall we find that when we turn to that world 
which is perfect there will be something that will turn 
with us, and we shall behold the new heaven and the new 
earth; not in some far off place somewhere beyond the 
clouds, but here and now shall we become free. 

We must do away with all that hinders the true growth, 
all the little thoughts that hinder us from becoming. Human 
strife comes from the thought that there is not enough 
to go around. Forget it; we cannot use even what we see, 
and what we do not see is infinite. You will rob no one 
by becoming prosperous, and the laws that underly this 
state of being are simple and easy to understand, and not 
hard to attain for the one who is willing to let go of the 
negative state of being. 



54 Creative Mind. 

PROSPERITY. 

TTERE are a few simple rules for prosperity that are as 
sure of working as that water is sure to be wet. First 
remember that nothing happens by chance. All is law and 
all is order. You create your own laws every time you 
think. There is something, call it what you will, but there 
is a Power around you that knows and that understands 
all things. 

This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of 
your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will 
receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and 
throw back at you whatever you think into it. 

This means that the practitioner should be very careful 
how he is thinking at all times. Not alone in the moments 
of the deeper silence are we treating our patients, but per- 
haps more than this we are treating them in an impersonal 
way at all times. When we take a patient into our thought 
for a treatment there will be a constant stream of conscious- 
ness flowing out to him, during all the time that he is in our 
care. We should be very careful of our thoughts as we 
realize the deep truths of mental action and reaction. 

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL MIND? 

"W/"HAT is true spirituality? Many people have asked 
this and as many have answered it. I do not pretend 
to know more about this all important topic than others, but 
to the thinking person who has come to realize that all is 
love, yet at the same time all is governed by law, there 
must be a different answer given than the one we ordinarily 



Creative Mind. 55 

hear. The average religious person thinks that spirituality 
must manifest in some unnatural way, such as giving up 
all personal pleasure and becoming resigned to whatever 
happens; that we must give up most of what life holds 
here ; that in some far-off future perhaps we may attain. 
This was not the case with the man Jesus. We have more 
accounts of his being at feasts and weddings and similar 
gatherings than at other places. His first miracle was per- 
formed at a wedding feast, and we must remember that here 
he even turned water into wine for the pleasure of the 
guests of the house. Perhaps we have made a mistake about 
what true spirituality means. 

Other people think we must live some kind of an excluded 
life in order to obtain. Perhaps this may be true of the 
weak ones. But what of the world? What of the busy 
street? Is it not to be saved also? Jesus spent much time 
with the common people as well as with the rich. And it is 
certain that he also spent much time alone with the Spirit. 

What is the Spirit, anyway? We all answer, ''Why of 
course, it is God." Where is the Spirit? It is present at 
all times and in all places. True spirituality must simply 
mean coming to realize the presence of this Spirit. It must 
be coming to rely upon it more than anything else. The 
one then who is the most spiritual is simply the one who 
relies the most; that is all. No matter where he is, he 
must rely, he must trust, he must believe. We do not have 
to give up anything but negative thought and act. We do 
not want to do anything that contradicts the forward march 
of the unfoldment of the Spirit, so all that we think and 
do must be in line with that which is right. But who shall 
say what is and what is not right? Remember this forever, 



56 Creative Mind. 

only your own soul shall say what is right and what is 
wrong. "To thine own self be true, and it shall follow as 
the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." 
Look to no one for guidance. This is the "blind leading 
the blind." The Almighty has put the truth into your own 
soul ; look there and there alone for it. Many people seem 
to think that for a man to look spiritual he must have no 
color in his face, have some kind of far-away truth; he 
must be peculiar either in looks, or in the way he dresses. 
To one who knows the truth, both praise and blame 
sound alike, but from the human standpoint at least a 
person cannot help being amused at the way in which the 
world judges true spirituality. My idea of true spirituality 
is that a man should live a perfectly normal life, entering 
into and enjoying all in life that is clean and good. He 
should place himself absolutely under the divine guidance. 
Other than this he will seem just like other people, neither 
better nor worse. Get over all kinds of unnatural thought 
and remember that all is good. Neither criticize nor con- 
demn people or things. You are spiritual in so far as you 
trust in the Spirit, at all times, in all places, under all con- 
ditions. In order to do this you do not have to seclude 
yourself from the world. To do so is an open confession 
of your own weakness and lack. There are moments when 
it is best to be alone with the Power. From these moments 
we gather strength. To keep that strength to ourselves is 
pure selfishness. Walk, talk, live with the human race, hand 
in hand with all people and unified with all events, live 
and love and learn. Be natural and normal. If you seek 
to enter some other way it must all be done over again, 
for no one lives or dies unto himself but unto all people. 



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THE CHURCH OF GOD. 

HPHE Church of God is not built with hands, it is eternal 
in the heavens ; it is not lighted with candles ; its 
dome is heaven and it is lighted by the stars of God's illum- 
ined thought, and each member in his separate star "shall 
draw the thing as he sees it, for the God of things as they 
are." Here all people recognize the God within their own 
souls and ask for and see no other God. When you can 
look upon all creation as the perfect work of a perfect God, 
you will become a member of this church. I doubt very 
much if the church universal admits members from the 
church individual. When you can see in the saint and the 
sinner one and the same person, when you can realize that 
the one who' kneels before the altar and the one who lies 
drunk in the street is the same one, when you can love the 
one as much as you do the other, no doubt you will be able 
to qualify. As it now is we have too many preachers who 
do not understand, that have no purpose ; too many prayers, 
too many creeds, too many teachers, that have no message ; 
too many churches, too many "learned" people, and too 
few thinkers. "The Kingdom of Heaven cometh not by 
observation." It is the "Still, small voice" within the soul 
that speaks. The expanded thought will never wish to join 
or be joined to. Nothing human can contain it. It feels 
the limitation of form and ceremony and longs for the 
freedom of the Spirit, the great out of doors, the Great 
God of the everywhere. Alone in the desert, the forest 
or by the restless ocean, looking up at the stars, man 
breathes forth these words, "With only my Maker and me." 



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THE PATH TO PROSPERITY. 

HPHE healing of conditions is no different from other 
healing. All healing is the constructive use of a 
mental law which the world is gradually beginning to under- 
stand something of. Again we must reiterate the principle 
of all life. We are surrounded by a thinking medium from 
which all things come. We think into it; it does the rest. 
Since we are thinking beings and cannot stop thinking, 
and since Creative Mind receives our thought and cannot 
stop creating, it must always be making something for us. 
What it will make depends absolutely and only upon what 
we are thinking, and what we will attract will depend 
entirely upon our holding thought to the complete exclusion 
of all that would contradict it. It is not enough that we 
should sit down and say, T am one with Infinite Life." 
This must mean more than mere words; it must be felt, 
it must become an embodiment of a positive mental atti- 
tude. It is not claiming something to be true which is going 
to happen; it is not sending out an aspiration, or a desire, 
or a supplication, or a prayer; it must be the embodiment 
of that which knows that now it is. This is more than 
holding a thought. Our ability to attract will depend upon 
the largeness of our thought as we feel that it flows out 
into a great Universal Creative Power. We are dealing 
with the form in thought, and not with the form in matter. 
We have learned that when we get the true form in thought 
and permeate it with the spirit of belief we will see the 
thought made flesh without any further effort on our part. 
Thought can attract to us only that which we first 



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mentally embody. We cannot attract to ourselves that 
which we are not. We can attract in the outer only that 
which we have first completely mentally embodied within, 
that which has become a part of our mental make-up, a 
part of our inner understanding. 

A man going into business will attract to himself that 
which he thinks about the most. If he is a barber he will 
attract people who want to be shaved or have their hair 
cut. If he sells shoes he will attract people who want to 
buy shoes. (See Creative Mind and Success, by the author 
of the present volume.) So it is with everything; we will 
not only do this, but we will also attract as much of any- 
thing as we mentally embody. This is apt to be overlooked 
in the study of metaphysics. It is not enough to say that 
we attract what we think; we become what we think, and 
what we become we will attract. 

Do not become merely sentimental about this. Your 
life is governed by more than a sentiment; it is governed 
by law, something that cannot be broken, something that 
picks up every mental attitude and does something with it. 

This fundamental proposition of the law should then work 
out into our conditions. Always remember that it does just 
as we think. It does not argue, it simply does the thing as 
we think it. Now how are we thinking ? Never ask a patient 
how he is feeling ; ask, how are you thinking to-day ? This is 
the only thing that matters. How are we thinking about life 
and our conditions ? Are we receiving the race suggestion ; 
are we saying that there is not enough to go around? If 
we are saying this, it is our belief, and there is something 
that will see that it becomes a part of our expression. Most 
people, through ignorance of the higher laws of their 



60 Creative Mind. 

being, are suffering from the thoughts imposed upon them 
from a negative and doubtful world. We who are claiming 
the use of the greater law must emancipate ourselves from 
all sense of limitation. We are not to be governed by the 
outer confusion but by the inner realization. We are to 
judge life not from the way that things in the past have 
been done, but from the way that the Spirit does things. 

THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT. 

A GAIN let us say that the Spirit creates by becoming 
the thing that it thinks. There is no other possible 
way in which it could work. Since it is all and there is 
no other, the thought of opposing forces never enters into 
its mental working; when we are judging from the outer 
we are not working in line with the power that we should 
be using. We must come to see that there is only One 
Power and that we are touching it at all points, for there 
is not a power of poverty and a power of prosperity. There 
is the one becoming the many ; it makes and it unmakes that 
a higher form may appear to express through it. All that 
is not in line with its forward movement will soon pass 
away, for it recognizes no opposite. As far as we are con- 
cerned what we are and what we are to become depends 
only upon what we are thinking, for this is the way that 
we are using creative power. The sooner we get away 
from the thought that we have to create, the sooner we will 
be able to work in line with the Spirit. Always man uses ; 
he never creates anything. The united intelligence of the 
human race could not make a single rose-bud; it does not 
know enough. But our slightest thought adrift in mind 



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causes the same power that makes all things to create for 
us. The great error of the race is, and always has been, 
that men have thought to give a physical reason for things. 
When that reason has not answered the problems of life 
they have sought out some other reason just as physical. 
The fact that they are all wrong is shown in that every 
generation has found a different reason. When truth is 
found it will also be found that it never changes to suit 
the whims of the human fancy. This is proven by the 
fact that whatever of the real truth the race has discovered 
has never been changed. The truth that was revealed to 
the prophets of old has never changed ; it is the same to-day 
as it was thousands of years ago. Whoever touches truth, 
no matter in what generation, will always get the same 
answer. The great truth that was revealed from Moses 
to the time of Jesus is the same truth that is still revealed 
to all who will accept it; it is simply this: we are now 
living in a Spiritual Universe, governed by mental laws of 
cause and effect. Moses saw it mostly from the standpoint 
of the Law of cause and effect, an eye for an eye. What 
does this mean? It means, as Jesus said, "As a man sows, 
so shall he reap." Moses saw the law. Jesus saw not only 
the law ("I am come not to destroy but to fulfill"), but 
he saw behind the law the reason for it, and revealed behind 
all law the Great Law-giver, a God of love working out 
the great inner concepts of His own being in harmony and 
in beauty, filled with peace, causing the sun to shine alike 
upon the just and the unjust. Jesus did not try to over- 
come the use of law; He understood all law and He well 
knew that all law was at His command; He did not break 
the law, He fulfilled it. So we must find that all is at our 



62 Creative Mind. 

) 
command through these same laws. The man who under- 
stands law and complies with it will have no difficulty in 
demonstrating that it is as true for him as it ever was for 
any one else. What, then, are the laws underlying prosper- 
ity? The first is this, and we must not try to escape it: 
"Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." This Me is 
Spirit. We are, then, to trust only in the activity of Spirit 
for what we need. But the world will say, "Human things 
come through human agencies." This may be true, but we 
must realize that the power we are dealing with also has 
within its own mind all people and all things. We do not 
have to treat people ; what we have to do is to embody 
principle. Principle may use people, but that is no part 
of our responsibility. Ultimately all is Spirit, and Spirit 
which is the beginning is also the end of all manifestation. 
"I am the Alpha and the Omega." Our life, then, is to 
be governed by Spirit. We need look no further. It will 
do for us all that we will ever ask, provided we believe. 
Why, then, has it not done so? The answer is that it has 
already done so, but we have not received it. The Spirit 
may offer, but we must accept the gift before it can be 
made. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." We must 
understand that this receiving is a mental process; it is 
one of mentally taking. 

The way, then, that we are using mind through our 
thought is the way that we are treating ourselves for 
prosperity. So simple, and yet we have not understood it! 
If a man says, "I have not," he will not receive; if he 
says, "I have," he will receive. "To those who have shall 
be given, and to those who have not shall be taken away 
even that which they have." This is a veiled statement 



Creative Mind. 63 

of the law of cause and effect. When you send out into 
mind the thought that you have not, it accepts the idea 
and takes away from you even that which you have. 
Reverse the process and say, "I have," and it will at once 
set to work to create for you even more than you now 
possess. You will readily see then that you are not dealing 
with two powers but with one, and that it operates through 
your own thought, doing unto all even as they believe. 

THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 

QINCE all is mind, and it is done unto us as we mentally 
think, all life is simply a law of thought — activity of 
consciousness. In our life the power flows through us. If 
we provide a big receptivity, it will do a big thing; if, on 
the other hand, we only believe in a small way, the activity 
must be a small one. The Spirit can do for us only what 
it can do through us. Unless we are able to provide the 
consciousness, it cannot make the gift. Few people have 
a great consciousness, and this explains why so few excel. 
The power behind all things of itself is without limit; it 
is all-power ; in us it has to become what we make it. We 
carry within our own soul the key to all expression, but 
few enter in. The door is not seen with the physical eye, 
and as yet but few have gained the ability to see ; the 
majority merely look. Realizing, then, that while the power 
is limitless it must become operative through our own 
thought, we shall see that what we need is not some greater 
power, but that what we really need is a greater concious- 
ness, a deeper realization of life, a grander concept of being. 
We must unify ourselves with the great whole. The man 



64 Creative Mind. 

who dares to fling his thought out into universal intelligence 
with the positive assurance of one who knows and dares to 
claim all there is will find that it will be done. God will 
honor his request. On the other hand, the one who fears 
to speak lest God will smite will find himself smitten of 
the law, not because God is angry, but because it is done 
as he believes. 

We have a right to have and should expect to have in 
this world all that will make for the comfort and for the 
luxuries of life. What matter how much we have, if we 
rob no other soul to get it? Shall not the Power that so 
lavishly spreads Itself out into nature give to us Its highest 
expression, all that we can ask? We dishonor God when 
we claim less than all. Until we can expand our thought 
so that we shall be able to say also, "I am'/ we need not 
expect to get great results. 

The soul that knows its own Divinity is the great soul ; 
before it all else must bend; to it all else must gravitate 1 . 
Enlarge your thought processes. Away with the little 
personal thoughts of things, and dare to think in universal 
terms about all things. The universe is running over with 
good , it is for you, but you must believe and then take it. 
Do you dare to believe that your own word is invincible? 
When you speak it how do you feel? Is it limitless, is it 
all power, is all power given to you in heaven and on earth, 
are you one with the only power that there is? Until you 
can say yes to all these questions and not simply believe 
them but know them, you can not hope to attain. It is 
useless in making a demonstration to beg for things; as 
well beg that water should be wet or that fire should be hot. 
Things are, we must take them. Your word has only the 



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power that you put into it, no more and no less. We are 
all held accountable for every word that we speak because 
all is the action and the reaction of mind. Man is his own 
heaven and his own hell. 

We start a new enterprise and wonder what the chances 
of success are; have we realized that the outer is simply 
the inner manifested? When we go to a new place we shall 
find there only what we have taken with us. If we have 
taken success we will find success; if, on the other hand, 
we have taken failure we will find failure. This is the 
law ; none can avoid it, none need try. Every living soul 
is a law unto his own life. "There is no law but my own 
soul shall set." Nothing can come upon the path of the 
soul but that thing that the soul attracts. 

PRACTICE FOR PROSPERITY. 

PROSPERITY is in our own hands to do with as we 
will, but we will never reach it until we learn to control 
our thought. We must see only what we want and never 
allow the other things to enter. If we wish activity we 
must be active in our thought, we must see activity and 
speak it into everything that we do. The spoken word shall 
bring it to pass. We speak the word, it is brought to pass of 
the Power that we speak it into. We can only speak the 
word that we understand, the activity will correspond to 
our inner concepts. If they are large the results will be 
large. The thing to do is to unify ourselves with all the 
biggest ideas that we can compass; and realizing that our 
ideas govern our power of attraction, we should be con- 
stantly enlarging within ourselves. We must realize our 



66 Creative Mind. 

at-one-ment with All Power and know that our word will 
bring it to pass. We speak the word, it is brought to pass of 
As consciousness grows it will manifest in enlarged oppor- 
tunities and a greater field of action. Most people think 
in the terms of universal powers. Feel that you are sur- 
rounded by all the power that there is when you speak and 
never doubt but that what you say will spring into being. 

We should speak right out into mind all that we desire, 
and believe that it will be done unto us. Never take the 
time to listen to those who doubt. We observe that their 
philosophy has done but little to save the world or them- 
selves. Here again let the dead bury the dead and see to 
it that you maintain in your own thought what you want, 
letting go of all else. Think only what you want to happen 
and never let yourself get mentally lazy and sluggish taking 
on the suggestions of poverty and limitation. See your- 
self as being in the position that you desire, mentally dwell 
upon it and then speak with perfect assurance that it is 
done; and then forget it and trust in the law. This will 
answer all needs. If you want to do this for someone else, 
all that you will need to do is to think of them and go 
through the same process of mind action. You will be 
sending out the truth for them, and mind being always 
active will not contradict what you have said. 

Remember that you cannot hope to get results unless 
you keep but the one idea and do not mix thoughts in your 
mind. All is yours, but you must take it. The taking is 
always a mental process ; it is believing absolutely. This is 
divine principle. 



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CONCLUSION. 

PRINCIPLE itself is simplicity, yet it is infinite — it is 
Infinite Mind and manifestation of Mind. We live in 
a Spiritual universe governed through thought, or the word 
which first becomes law; this law creates what we call 
matter. Jesus Christ discerned the truth about spiritual 
principles more than any other man who ever lived, and 
he proclaimed the eternal reign of law and understanding, 
absolute, complete, perfect; and he found that law to be 
operative through his own thought and the power of his 
own word. And when you and I shall cease looking outside 
ourselves to any person and shall realize that whatever 
truth and whatever power we shall have must flow through 
us ; when we begin to interpret our own natures, we shall 
begin to understand God and law, and life, and not until 
then. 

We live and move and have our being in what we call 
an Infinite Mind, an Infinite Creative Mind, also infinitely 
receptive, operative, omnipotent, and all-knowing; and we 
have learned that this mind presses against us on all sides, 
flows through us, and becomes operative through our think- 
ing. The human race, ignorant of the laws of this mind, 
ignorant of the power of its own thought, has through its 
ignorance misused and abused the creative power of its 
thought, and brought upon itself the thing it feared. This 
is true because all thought is law, and all law is mind in 
action, and the word which you speak to-day is the law 
which shall govern your life to-morrow, as the word which 
you spoke, ignorantly or innocently, consciously or uncon- 



68 Creative Mind. 

sciously yesterday, is absolutely governing your life to-day. 
As metaphysicians, then, we are not dealing with a material, 
nor denying a manifest universe, but we are claiming that 
the manifestation is the result of the inner activity of the 
mind ; and if we wish for a definite manifestation, we must 
produce a definite inner activity. You and I, then, are not 
dealing with conditions, but with mental and spiritual law. 
We are dealing with the power of thought, the power of 
mind, and the more spiritual the thought the higher the 
manifestation. The more our reliance upon what we call 
God, the greater the power. 

It is the new education because it strips all the false 
from the old belief and reveals the individual. It is the new 
age, because as sure as God is, it will usher in and express 
the perfect life, the revelation of this truth, and our ability 
to use it; and it is your own fault when you know this 
and do not prove it. 

If, knowing the infinite power flowing through you, you 
still remain sick and unhappy, miserable and poor, my 
friend, it is your own fault. Do not blame God, do not 
blame man, and do not say it is of the devil. It is your own 
fault. Every time you say I Am, you are recognizing the 
eternal infinite presence of omnipotent power within your- 
self, which is God operating through your thought, and 
that is why you bring upon yourself the thing you fear, 
and why you bring to yourself the thing you want. 

When fifty-one per cent, of your thinking is health and 
life and power, that day the fifty-one per cent, will swallow 
up, erase, kill out the rest. The day you, as an individual, 
through fifty-one per cent, of your thought, pass beyond the 
perception of limitation, you will draw out of the universe 



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everything you desire ; poverty will desert you and you will 
be emancipated forever. The day you think fifty-one per 
cent, of happiness, misery shall depart and never return. 
Is it not then worth your time and your effort, and should 
it not be the greatest purpose in the life of any awakened 
soul so to depict this principle as to emancipate himself? 

The way can be shown, but each individual must him- 
self walk the way. We are so bound by suggestion and 
hypnotized by false belief, so entangled by the chaotic think- 
ing of the world, thinking which is based upon the principle 
of a dual mind, that we become confused and are not our- 
selves. Wake up ! Your word is all-powerful, your con- 
sciousness is one with Omnipotence. Your thought is 
infinite. Your destiny is eternal and your home is everlast- 
ing heaven. Realize the truth — I am living in a perfect 
universe, it always was perfect and always will be perfect. 
There never was a mistake made, there are no mistakes 
being made, and there never will be. I live in the great 
and eternal universe of perfection from cause to effect, 
from beginning to end, and "The world's all right, and I 
know it." 

Majestic and calm, waiting with eternal and divine 
patience, the Great Principle of Life is ready to give to 
us all that it has. And while we listen and wait we will 
cast from us everything that hinders its complete expression 
through us, we will let go of all struggle and all strife 
and be at peace with Life. 

Perfect peace to the soul as we rest in the realization 
of our unity with all that there is, was or ever will be. 
One with the Infinite Mind. All the power of the Spirit 
is working through our thought as we believe and receive. 



70 Creative Mind. 

Now we will ask for and take that thing which we desire ; 
it is done, it is complete, now and forever. Perfect life, 
perfect healing, perfect harmony, Divine guidance, Infinite 
strength and joy forever. 



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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 

What is the Truth? 

The Truth is that which is. It is all that is. As there 
cannot be something and nothing, so the Truth, being that 
which is, must at the same time be all that there is. 

Where is the Truth? 

If the Truth is All, it must be everywhere; being all, 
there is no other substance to divide it with; being undi- 
vided, it is everywhere present. All Truth, which means 
all power, must be present at all points, or at any given 
point, at any and at all times. 

Has the Truth changed? 

A substance cannot change unless there is something for 
it to change into. Since the Truth is all, it cannot change, 
for there is no other thing for it to change into ; whatever 
is the Truth, then, has never changed. 

Is the Truth, or that which is, one or many? 
It must be one, since it is all. 

Is the Truth conscious? 

Yes, man is conscious. He could not be so unless Truth 
or Life were conscious. Man's self-consciousness proves 
the self-consciousness of Life or Truth or Spirit. Like 
produces like. 

What comes out of life? 

Everything that is comes out of life. If life is all then 
it follows that all that is is some form of life. 



72 Creative Mind. 

How does Life make things? 

Being all, it must make things out of itself. It must 
operate upon itself, through itself, and out of itself must 
make all that is made. Being conscious, it must know that 
it is doing this. 

What would we call this inner movement of Life? 
The inner movement of Life or consciousness we would 
call thought or the self-knowing of Life or Spirit. 

Then the universe and all that is a part of it comes from 
thought ? 

Yes, everything comes from thought. 

Do we not see a visible world that seems to change, and 
if we do, how is it that it could come from something that 
never changes? 

Yes, we do see a changing world, but back of it is a 
changeless substance. The thing that changes is the thought 
or form; the substance from which this form comes never 
changes. It is one and undivided, and takes form through 
thought in all things. We prove this when we resolve 
all things into one source. All material things, so called, 
can be reduced into formless substance, the sole activity of 
which must be thought or the movement of intelligence 
upon itself. 

What causes form to change ? 
The intelligence behind it. 

Is there nothing in the universe, then, but Life, thought 
and form? 
These are all. 



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If this is true, what is physical law? 
Physical law is simply the result of the inner movement 
of Life. 

If things and laws are the result of the inner movement 
of Life, then does it not follow that thoughts are things? 
Yes, all things are simply thought forms. 

How long does thought last as form? 

As long as the thought is held in Life or Mind. 

Does the thought of Life, Mind or Good ever change? 

From all that we can know the thought of God seems 
to change. That is, planets change, take form and again 
become formless. When we realize that all this can take 
place without ever changing the substance behind it, we 
see no reason why God's thought could not change and 
ever build up a higher form. Indeed, this is one of the 
teachings of Ancient Wisdom, that while reality never 
changes, the form that it takes is ever changing. 

What is man's place in the creative order? 
Man is a thinking center in Mind, reproducing in a 
smaller scale all there is in the Universe. 

Does this not make man's thought creative? 

In a certain sense it does. What we call creation is not 
making something out of nothing, but it is thought taking 
form. And as man thinks, and as thought must take form, 
then it must follow that man's thought must take form 
in mind and so become creative. 



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74 Creative Mind. 

What is man's thought? 

It is the activity of that something within that can say, 
'"I Am." 

What is the difference between God and man? 

The very fact that man can say, "I Am," proves that 
he is. Since he is he must be made out of life and must 
be some part of all that there is. This being so, man must 
be a part of God's consciousness. The difference would 
be in degree only. He must be as much of Life as he 
recognizes himself to be. 

Is all of man's thought creative? 

Yes, all or none. If one thought produces, then all must. 

If this be true, how is it that man seems to be so limited? 

Because he has thought limitation, and thoughts are 
things and will always make the thing thought of. In reality 
the very fact that man's thought can limit him also proves 
that it could free him from all limitation by simply changing 
his thought. 

But why is man so made that he can think two ways ? 

This is a question that can be answered only in one way. 
Unless a man can think as he wants to think he would 
not be a man at all but simply a piece of mechanism. Man 
is an individual and that means self choice, backed by a 
power that will produce the thing chosen. In discovering 
himself man chooses many things, uses them and passes 
to a higher choice, ever ascending in the scale of being. 
As fast as he chooses, he experiences that thing which 
he thinks about. 



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What is evil? 

Evil is the result of a lack of clear seeing, based upon a 
belief in two powers, and limitation and what we call sin 
is the result of man's struggle to find himself. 

If this be true, why could we not at once begin to change 
our whole life by first changing our thought? 

We could. We would not be changing real substance, 
but we would be changing the form that it takes through 
our thought. All that we can change is the form of 
thought through which experiences come to us. 

What is the limit of man's creative use of Mind? 
Man is limited by nothing but his own thinking, by his 
mental ability to conceive. 

What is meant by mental conception? 

All things are produced by thought. The thing produced 
from mind is first formed in thought ; thought molds mind 
into form. 

But do we not have to act ? 

We cannot think without acting; an inactive body is the 
result of an inactive mind. 

In using our creative powers, how far do we have to con- 
sider the conditions under which we live? 

We do not have to consider them at all. Conditions are 
the result, the effect and not the cause ; we create them as 
fast as we think. 



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How would a person start to change conditions? 

By first changing thought and by realizing that we are 
not dealing with an illusion, but with the great reality. 
Then by acting as though we already have what we think. 

How long would it take to do this? 

As long as it would take to let go of all negative thought 
and embody all positive thought. This would depend 
entirely upon the individual and his mental ability to control 
thought. 

What would hinder us the most? 

Ourselves; no one gives to us but ourselves and no one 
takes from us but ourselves. 

Can no one else help us? 

Only to a limited degree. While we may be helped by 
those who understand the law, for a time, yet sooner or 
later we must ourselves take the creative responsibility of 
our own lives. Others may think for us for a few moments 
a day, but we think for ourselves all the time. 

But does not God help us? 

Yes, God helps all, but must do it through law. "All's 
love yet all's law." 

How should we pray? 

By giving thanks that we already have that thing that 
we pray for ; by completely believing and by never doubting. 
"When ye pray believe that ye have received and ye shall 
receive." We must be sure that in no way shall we think, 
act or talk or read about limitation. We must all be a law 
unto ourselves. 



Creative Mind. 77 

DEFINITIONS. 

God. — Infinite Spirit, self-knowing Mind, Life, Truth, 
Intelligence, Love, All Cause and All Effect. That 
invisible power which makes all things out of Itself, 
by an inner action of its own thought upon Itself. 

The Visible Universe. — The ideas of God in expression, 
the body of God, expression of the Divine Mind. All 
visible life is an expression of an inner concept. 

Law. — Mind in action; law is not cause, it is effect. It is 
intelligence operating. All law is universal. *s 

Vibration. — Not intelligence, but the result of intelligence, 
it follows cause. 

Thought. — The activity of Mind. J 

Man. — A thinking center in mind. \/ 

Creation. — Thought becoming form. The Immaculate Con- «/ 
ception. 

Sin. — Lack of understanding, v 

Righteousness. — Spiritual understanding. * 

Sickness. — Image of thought held in mind appearing on* 
the body. 

Health. — The realization of perfect life.v 

Poverty. — Limited thought. V 

Riches. — The realization of our unity with life, which is v 
limitless. j 

Consciousness. — The realization of the fact that we are. / 

Life. — Consciousness of power and activity, v 

Truth. — That which is./ / 

Realization. — An inner thought process whereby we become v 
conscious of our unity with life. 

Absolute. — Complete self -knowing. J 






78 Creative Mind. 

Causation. — God, Spirit, Life, That which is. 

Intelligence. — That which knows that it is. 

Unfoldment. — The birth of ideas coming forth from Mind. 

Illusion. — Belief in two powers. 

Soul. — The inner creative life, the feminine, receptive, 

creative. 
Sense. — Not an illusion, but the faculties through which 

we contact life in its expression. 
Motion. — The inner activity of life producing manifestation. 
Effect. — The result of inner motion. 
The Word. — The activity of thought. 
Faith. — Positive mental activity. 
Fear. — Negative mental activity. 
Attraction. — The drawing power of thought. 
Unity. — One Mind flowing through all, and in all. 
Objective. — Life in its outer form. 
Subjective. — Life in its inner thought or form. 
Karma. — The law of cause and effect. The result of past 

thought and action binding the ignorant and freeing 

the wise. 
Multiplicity. — The bringing forth from the One of an 

infinite variety of form, color and motion. 
Treatment. — The mental and spiritual activity of thought 

for a definite end. 
Demonstration. — The result of correct thinking. 
Heaven. — The atmosphere of correct thought. 
Hell. — The atmosphere of false thinking. 
Peace. — Mind resting in the realization that it is all. 
Poise. — An inner calm which never fears. 
Power. — The result of the union of peace and poise. 
The End. 









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